Chapter 10

Day 9

August 9th

Sakura's thoughts were scarmbled, going hay wire. She thought She hated him. What's going on and why is everying so fast paced? She asked herself. The Ball was in 8 days, and She couldn't decide weather they were fighting or friends. She hated it when he did this to her. Yes, it's happened before, back in 7th, when they first met. Sure she thought we was arrogant and concited Which, don't get me wron he is), but it just all changed when she saw something else in him, something that wasn't noticable before. Till this day, she can't figure out what it is, but she knew it was there, and everytime It showed itself her senses shut down completely.

"I hate this!" She screamed at herself, in her head of course. She was currently subjected to bed rest and was staring at the light pink celing, that matched the light pink walls and the light pink door. Odd I know, a pink room in a house that Syaoran lives in? Ha! Well it's true, Sakur's favourite colour is pink so it was painted to match her, not snobby, confusing, hunky Syaoran. Sakura coulnd't help but stare let her thoughts drift to him and their current situation. How was this going to work, could they just go back to normal.. after all this? Was it really possible to put it out of their minds like that? Sakura knew it was highly unlikeyly, but she promised to try.

"If I can't live with it, I'll live without it" She whispered out loud. Finally deciding to disobey 'Master Syaoran' she got up out of bed, immediatly missing the comfort of the pillow that rested under her swollen ankle. I can handle it she preped herself. Slowly and cautiously she opened the door.

"Afternoon Princess" She winced at the voice, but looked to the left, where Syaoran was calmly positioned.

"It was only a matter of time before you got tired of sitting around" He said, "But to bad, go back to bed" She rolled her eyes and let out an angry breath.

"But I'm hungy" She tried. No avail. He didn't even budge.

"We'll bring you food, what do you want?" He asked.

"I need to see what there is" She tried agian. Not a chance.

"We'll bring you a menu" He said simply.

"Please? I'm so tired of sitting in my room. It's boring and lame and i'm on vacation!" She whined, stomping her feet in the process. He didn't budge, not a laugh, not a chuckle, not a retort, just a cold stare.

"Fine" She sighed in defeat. "Leave me to my torturous solitude" The amount of Dramatic-ness in her reply made Syaoran's well worked on stance faulter for a moment and a small, short chuckle escaped. She turned around hopefully, only to see him back in his original state, cold and poweful. I must've imagined it she thought sadly.Sighing once again she re-entered her room and closed the door behind her.

"I know you're listening at the door Kino, just go back to bed." She head his muffled reply flow into her ear, which indeed was pressed against the door.

"Fine ruin all my fun" She shouted and moved a few inches towards the bed.

"All the way to bed!" He yelled impatiently. Sakura huffed before getting back into bed.

"Keep that foot up!" His voice drifted through her room. How does he do that, read my mind.. she grumbled before lifted her foot up on the pillows and staring once again at the celing.

"I hate this" She mumbled.

"Hey Eriol, wanna stand watch here for a bit, while I tell Wei we need a menu for Princess?" Syaoran asked Eriol in a hopeful whisper. Eriol was luckily walking past Sakura's room in search of something to do.

"I guess" He agrees hesitantly, "But hurry back" Syaoran nodded and ran down the hall and out of sight. A few minutes went by, but to a bored and unsatisfied Eriol, it seemed like hours.

"Where is he?" He asked himself. "He was supossed to be back by now"

"Hey Eriol" He heard a voice call, he shook his midnight blue hair a bit and looked up at the voice.

"Hey Tomoyo" Suddenly, his bordom seemed to seep away, and a smile appeared instead.

"Whatcha doin?" She asked curiously. He patted a spot beside him ont he floor. Tomoyo slid down beside him.

"I'm watching Sakura's room, so that if she tries to come out, I can tell her to go back to bed so she doesn't strain her ankle even more than it already is." He said.

"Oh, want some company?" She asked. Eriol smiled big.

"I'd love some"

"Hey sorry It took so long" Syoran said halting infront of the duo out of breath, holding.. a menu. and...

"What took you so long?" Eriol asked. ... food.

"Wei was busy, so I had to find the menu's myself and then I ran into Tomoyo" He nodded in her direction, "And thought, by now, you'd probably be hungy, and I knew she'd be on her way up here, so I made food" He answered. He handed them the little bag. "Has she tried to leave again?" Eriol nodded his head.

"Thanks for the food buddy" He said happily. "You gonna take it from here?" Syaoran nodded.

"Wish I didn't have to, but if she gets up, then I wont have a date for the Ball next week." He sighed. "So difficult"

Eriol and Tomoyo laughed but didn't reply, they just walked away. Syaoran sighed again pushing his bangs out of his face and stepping across the hall and infront of her door. He knocked... twice.

"Come in, but only if you have something to unbore me" Came the angelic voice. He stopped himself from chuckling and put on his cold and serious expression before entering.

"Here" He handed her the menu.

"You were serious? You brought me a menu?" She asked in disbelief. "Come on, you couldn't have brought me a game cube or something?"

"You didn't say 'i wanna play video games and become a brainless moron' you said 'im hungry' so yea, I brought you a menu" He retorted. Sakura sighed and took the menu. She skimmed through it.

"Damn, you guys can make all this?" She asked. Syaoran nodded.

"Awesome, you know what sounds good right now?" She asked happily.

"What?" He asked.

"Freedom!" She spat. He rolled his eyes at her,

"If you don't choose what you're going to eat I'm not going to ask you again, you can starve" He probably shouldn't have said that cause next thing he knew... the menu came flying at his face.

"Fine, I wont" She huffed. "Now.. get out" He did as she said, and left.

He wouldn't beg, not a chance, no way. That was what was going through his mind as he paced across from her door. It had bin hours, several hours and she still hadn't asked for anything, he had tried offering her the menu again, but that didn't work, she just threw it at him again. Finally, he gave up. It was almost midnight, he couldn't fight it anymore. He had already made her think she was fat with a simple comment. Who knows that damage he did this time.

"Fine" He mumbled to himself. He knocked on her door.

"Go away" She yelled. At least I know she's awake. He told himself.

"I'm coming in" He shouted back. Without waiting for a response he opnened the door and came face to face with Sakura.. in short shorts and tank stop. Pink short shorts... and a white tank top to be exact.

"What do you want, I told you I'm not hungry!" She screamed at him.

"Don't give me that, you havn't eaten all day, that means. you havn't eaten in 11 hours, you have to hungry, I'm hungry and I had breakfast" He stated firmly.

"Well i'm not you" She retorted.

"I know, your sutpider. We both know it's not healthy to starve yourself." Sakura glared at him and came dangerously close.

"Well then you should stop telling me to shrink up Master" She spat venomously. That was it for Syaoran, she was close enough all he had to do was...

"Ahh!" She screamed. "Let me go!"

"Nope" He said camly. "Stop kicking me!"

"No, let me go!" She shouted. At this exact moment, Syaoran was kicking the door closed behind him as Sakura was hoisted on his shoulder helpless. She screamed and shouted all the was to the kitchen when he finally set her down on the counter.

"Don't even attmpt to get up, I'm faster than you, stronger than you and now that you've sprained your ankle you wont get far before I get to you" He warned. Sakura just huffed but didn't try to get down, she knew he was right.

"You're not prettier than me though" She stuck her tounge out at him. Syaoran looked appauled.

"What, you don't think i'm pretty?" He asked. He stuck his hig out and placed his hand on his hip in an attitude like position. Sakura started giggling, Syaoran smiled, but caught himself and returned to his cold, and seriousness.

Sakura watched in awe as his hands moved expertly around the kitchen, getting out bowls, chopping, flattening dough, baking, throwing things into the air and catching them in a pan. He was moving around so quickly it was making her dizzy, but she couldn't not watch. It was something she didn't know about him, and it was to say the least, facinating. As he circled around her to get to the coths that were positioned in a droor just a few inches away from her, she lost her balance and began to fall. before her body completely fell off the counter top, Syaoran had caught her, cloths in one hand, her in the other. Without a word he carried her to the table, bridal style and sat her in one of the beautiful mahogany chairs, and went back to the stove. She waited patiently, though the smell consumed her and she had to fight the temptation to get up and steal one of the cookies he had just taken out of the oven.

"Viola" He said suddenly. Unknown to him, he just broke Sakura's concentration, her intense stare directed to the appizing cookies gone. Syaoran came over with two plates, full of food. Oragne Chicken, Thai noodles, white rice, egg rolls, spring rolls, roated prok smothered in a sweet n' sour sauce and a small amount of stir fry. He placed one infront of Sakura and the other on the other side of the table. He wizzed over to the fridge and poured two glasses of punch. He places his down first and then Sakura's along with knives, forks and napkins. He was about to walk back to his spot and thought better of it and grabbed a chair right beside Sakura placing it infront of her.

"Here, put your foot up on this, at least it'll be on something higher up" He said. Sakura did as she was told. And placed the aching foot on the chair, a little too harshly apparently, cause she screamed out in agony and pulled her foot back towards her bumping the table, hurting her ankle even more and spilling not only her drink but her plate all over Syaoran.

"Sorry" She whispered in fright. Syaoran shrugged it off and went to the freezer, he pulled out 3 ice holders and placed them on the counter. He opened the lowest cabnet, making him sit in a squated formation. He pulled out a long .. thing, from what Sakura could see and started to fill it with ice. He filled the ice holder up again and places them in the freezer. He walked over with the ice pack and placed it on the table. He crouched down beside Sakura and picked up her foot carefully and gently placed it on the chair. He then picked up the long ice pack, it was in a sort of... wrap form. So as it was assumed, he wrapped her throbbing foot in the ice pack and secured it.

"Syaoran" She whipsered. He didn't say a word, he just picked up the fallen plate and placed it in the sink before placing the foods on another plate and placing it infront of her.

"You need to eat" Was all he said before turning around and walking to his end of the table and starting to eat, dispite the amount of food that was splattered on his head and body, ignoring the juice what was dripping off his hair and soaking into his clothes. That kind act, was what made Sakura eat. Not the fact that he made the food for her, or was determined to make her eat. It was becuase he dispite the food and drink splattered on him, he didn't yell, or shout or grunt. Instead he fixed up more food and drink and iced up her foot for her.

"Thank you" She whispered before digging in.

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I know, long time no update. I know this chapter is lame, but don't worry better to come. I would've updated sooner but the straight up truth is... my hard drive on my other computer [which i had already updated this story on crashed... and well.. all was lost.. so i was pretty much like 'screw it, i'm not writting it again, i don't even remember what i wrote in the first place' yea, i know, that was horrible of me. but well. it's the truth. anyways. you know my policy. you don't have to review, knowing that you read it is okay with me.

and thanks for all those who have supported me thus far. Anyways, as always, if you decide to review, critisism is welcome, i love it, it lets me know what I can do better. it can be "I HATE IT" and as long as you state why, i can always improve on it. so feel free to shout.

Thank you every who has reviewed, it makes me smile. and thanks to those who read but don't review [im guilty of that myself, i rarely review, i just add it to my favourites and alerts and im done, time to read something else lol i really enjoy knowing that this is read so much, so thanks again everyone.

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