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The Probability is Zero

Chapter 9

Li Syaoran had never felt more annoyed before than he was that night. His supposed to be perfect dinner with Sakura Kinomoto was ruined before his very own eyes. And the most irritating part for him was the fact that the girl who was very much responsible for his wretched feelings appeared to be completely oblivious with his sudden mood change.

Syaoran knew all along that Sakura was the most insensitive girl he ever met in his entire life. She was so insensitive that it almost made him knock a living daylight out of a guy whom was actually a complete stranger to him. Just because the guy happened to sit leisurely beside her as if it was his right to sit in there in the first place. Just because the guy happened to be her main reason to reminisce the past; their past, where Syaoran understood perfectly clear that he was not in any parts of it. And because the guy happened to be the apparent reason behind her somewhat reddening face and twinkling eyes for that night, not him.

Without bothering herself to ask for Syaoran's approval first, Sakura happily offering the anonymous guy (a.k.a. Yukito-Sempai as quoted from Sakura's annoying whisper; a.k.a. Yukito Tsukishiro as quoted from his mouth when the guy introduced himself to him; Syaoran could not care less about this particular guy's name anyway) to sit beside her.

Upon seeing what Sakura did, it took all Syaoran's might in restraining himself from making any sarcastic remarks to whatever things that Sakura was telling Yukito from the very beginning. He knew that he had an image to uphold and throwing fits in front of a stranger especially in a public domain like that was an unwise act for him. For some odd reasons; he could not bring himself to consider this Yukito Tsukishiro or whatever aliases he had as his friend or even a mere acquaintance and he would be more than glad to keep him as a stranger for the longest period ever.

Frustrated with the current situation that turned out to be thoroughly different from what he expected before when he made a reservation at that restaurant in the first place; Syaoran could only wave crankily at the waiter who was currently standing nearby their table and said, "Give me one bottle of Burgundy wine."

"Ah, that's an excellent choice, Li-Kun. This restaurant happens to have an extensive collection of some of the most marvelous French red wines. I think for Burgundy, they have as old as from the year of 1961," explained Yukito with a sincere smile towards Syaoran.

The guy took a quick glance to the waiter, who apparently was waiting for his instructions or so, "Oh, yeah; please give one apple juice for the lady, Kagawa." The waiter nodded curtly and went to the bar lounge to give their order to one of the bartenders in there.

However with his current surly mood, Syaoran failed to see the smile from the guy who was sitting in front of him as a friendly gesture and took it as a hidden challenge instead. He could not help himself but to snort loudly at Yukito, "Who are you anyway; the manager of this place or what? Why didn't you bother to ask her first what she actually wants before you order something for her all the time? "

"Hey, no need to be so rude to Yukito-Sempai, Big Guy! I don't have any problems whatsoever with him ordering things for me. Besides those things happened to be things that I like anyway," replied Sakura while flashing an angry look at Syaoran.

Syaoran did not like the fact that Sakura defended that guy so much while much to his irritation, Yukito did not seem to be offended by him at all. He was still smiling when he spoke once again as if he did not hear his any of his sarcastic comments in the first place, "Well, I'm pretty familiar with those stuffs since my parents sort of force me into memorizing them ever since I was very young."

"Eh?" Sakura slightly surprised when she heard Yukito's answer.

"Didn't Touya or I ever mention to you that my parents are the owners of this restaurant, Sakura-Chan?" asked Yukito pleasantly.

"Not that I could recall of, I think," replied Sakura. She bit her lower lips slightly as if trying to remember something.

"Yeah, imagine that," growled Syaoran while drinking his wine impulsively as if he wanted to drown himself in it. His food was left untouched since his appetite had long gone ever since the time Yukito appeared before his own eyes that night.

"It's very interesting to see both of you in here, Sakura-Chan especially since only this morning I read some fascinating news about you and Li-Kun."

"Hahahaha… those kinds of magazines always exaggerate craps and writing lots of tall tales made-to-believe kinds of things; nothing important could ever be obtained from these kinds of media, Sempai. They are just a bunch of nonsense from some deluded gossipmongers. You would never believe that some people are just too free to really consider those articles and pictures as the real thing. Believe me; nothing will ever be going on between me and this guy; we barely know each other and to be seen as a couple really makes me itchy and wants to laugh very hard."

Syaoran poured another glass of wine and took a big gulp from it. Upon finishing the whole glass, he snarled sarcastically and stared coldly at Sakura while busily pretended not to notice the guy who was sitting beside her, "Your feeling is mutual here, Little Girl; I could not express how I agree with those little statements of yours."

Syaoran found it much harder to contain his anger within him the more he listened to the conversation between the two people sitting in front of him. He almost wanted to hit the guy's face for keeping smiling idiotically in front of Sakura like he was in love with her. Still, he could only blame himself inwardly for asking Sakura to have dinner in that expensive restaurant which unluckily happened to be owned by the guy's parents rather than following Sakura's suggestion to eat in family restaurants in the first place. If he knew this was the result of his stupidity to be romantic and all; he would definitely prefer to embarrass himself by showing up in those kinds of cheap restaurants at any rate.

In the end, all he could do was only to drown his annoyance with the help of the wine for as long as his stomach could stand. He had lost counts on how many glasses he had already poured before he realized that he had finished the whole bottle all by himself.

He snapped his fingers to call a waiter who happened to pass by his table and ordered another bottle of wine.

"Hey, you're not planning to get drunk tonight right, Big Guy?" asked Sakura with a slightly worried tone. She did not understand why Syaoran kept glaring angrily at her and looked very annoyed for some reasons.

"That's none of your concern, Little Girl. I could drink anything I want for as many as I like since I pay for those things myself anyway. You could continue your little conversation there with him and no need to bug me."

Sakura snorted, "Yeah, actually I could not care less about your pathetic acts of embarrassing yourself in front of those strangers around here who keep drooling over you up until now. But since later on I still have to go with you in that darn new car of yours so it's better for you to keep your sense that isn't much to begin with intact in your head, Big Guy."

Syaoran could not keep his anger anymore upon listening to Sakura's cold reply and spoke louder than what he intended to, "Yeah, it's the same with me, Little Girl. I could not care less on how you go home later. I don't give a damn care whether you walk, crawl or whatever means that your smart brain could think of since I will not let you step inside my car even for only one more time. Let me give you a small piece of information, Little Girl; I definitely did not buy that car just so I could drive an underage girl like you home safely. This afternoon was only an exception since I need to test out that car to make sure everything works fine before I could ask a true lady go out for a date or so. Thus, it's better for you to start thinking carefully how to go home tonight."

Sakura stared at the person in front of her in a great disbelief. She never met anyone as childish as Syaoran in her entire life before; even all her no-brainy classmates during high school were nothing compared to that guy. She could not understand and definitely would never trouble herself to do so at any rate why Syaoran always acted as if all other women were some sorts of precious things to him while he took her as if she was lesser than nothing to him. Although she knew from the start that Syaoran was a terrible pain and the fact that she somehow had already numb with the way he kept treating her in an exact opposite of the way he treated other women; still what he had said to her just now was utterly shot up above her average tolerance level.

Shaking in anger Sakura retorted, "You're just beyond help, Li Syaoran!"

Although Syaoran could not see Sakura clearly in between his blurry vision due to the vast amount of alcohol that he had consumed all along; he still could sense that the girl was really angry with him at the moment.

However, before Syaoran could say anything to fix the situation that started to go out off hand, Yukito stepped in and spoke with a pacifying tone to Sakura while he gently put his hand on her shoulder, "I am sure that Li-Kun did not mean what he said just now." Yukito smiled at Syaoran before he turned to see Sakura and continued, "And of course I will be more than glad to drive you home tonight, Sakura-Chan since I obviously have nothing much to do in here anyway. I am sure Li-Kun would not mind about it." Yukito was glancing at Syaoran's direction for a fleeting second and smiled genuinely. However, Yukito returned his gaze to Sakura in almost no time and gave his undivided attention to the girl for the rest of the night.

Sakura blushing a little bit upon noticing that Yukito was smiling sweetly to her direction and she could only reply shyly, "Thanks a lot, Yukito-Sempai; I would be more than happy to accept your offer. You really deserved to be called as a gentleman unlike a wannabe that I unluckily happen to know." For a fleeting second, Sakura glared at Syaoran to emphasize her last sentence before she returned her gaze at Yukito and completely ignored the guy who was sitting in front of her for the remaining of the night.

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Syaoran did not believe that a girl like Sakura Kinomoto who apparently preferred to painstakingly ignore him and chose to speak with nobody like Yukito whatsoever his name was instead really existed in the world.

He did not listen to any of their conversation anymore since his mind already muddled with wine that mixed with the anger bottling up inside him ever since Sakura accepted Yukito's offer on driving her home later that night. He did not want to admit it out loud to Sakura that he did not mean any single thing that he had said awhile ago. Of course that girl had to realize it herself that he never meant anything bad with his words. Besides, it was actually her mistake to begin with since she had successfully pissed him off by acting all lovey-dovey with Yukito. Only by hearing Sakura calling Yukito's name every time she opened her mouth made him almost brutally smashed the table in front of him just to wipe off the smile that seemed always linger on that guy's face even when there was no apparent reason to laugh about. It was almost like he was being nominated as one of the candidates for Mr. Perfect Smile 2007 or something that made him continued exhibiting his patented smile like that.

However much to Syaoran's displeasure, apparently Sakura did not understand his reason of saying those things and instead of thinking carefully about the cause behind those cruel words he had said; she seemed enjoying Yukito's offer like it was some sort of winning a lottery worth a million yen. In the end, Syaoran could only compensate his annoyance towards the current disposition by drinking more wine for the rest of the night.

He had finished his third bottle of wine and now already started pouring his glass with the fourth. Every once in awhile he glanced at Sakura and secretly hoped that she took a notice upon how many bottles of wine that he had been drinking so far. Somehow, he simply wanted the girl to scold worriedly at him once again or at least showed a faint sign that she still concerned about him when she noticed that he was drinking nonstop like that. However, Sakura hardheadedly persisted to keep ignoring him and obviously putting her utmost effort to consider him as a mere part of the wall or some sort of additional decoration of the restaurant.

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"Sakura-Chan, I really hate to say this but I think it's better for me to drive you home now since it's already getting late. I don't want to be killed by Touya if he noticed that you were breaking your curfew," said Yukito politely after quite some time while he smiled earnestly at Sakura.

"Hahahaha I almost forgot that you're my brother's best friend, Yukito-Sempai. I'm no longer having those kinds of curfews anymore ever since I graduated couple of months ago. Still, you're right that it's already getting late. I always amaze that time seems like passing by very fast whenever I'm talking with you, Sempai." Sakura laughed heartily; ignoring the frowns that clearly etched on Syaoran flawless face upon hearing her words.

Yukito pulled Sakura's chair gently when she stood up. However, before she could go anywhere, she noticed a strong hand gripped her wrist forcefully.

"What do you want now?" asked Sakura coldly to the culprit.

"Who says that you could go anywhere without me, Little Girl?" snapped Syaoran heatedly.

Sakura sighed deeply since she noticed that they started to catch more attentions from her surrounding than before. She knew very well that people were very interested to see at their direction to know what would happen next especially after they clearly saw that Syaoran was drinking heavily for the entire night. Although she was still angry with the guy, a big part of her never wanted Syaoran to have a very bad publicity upon his crazy behaviors that he had been showing constantly the whole time they were inside the restaurant.

"Listen, Big Guy, no need to create a big ruckus in here especially when people are still staring at us. Just let me call a cab for you while Yukito-Sempai could arrange somebody to send your car home. You know that it's already extremely hard for us to find the right direction even when you're not drunk like this and with your current state, believe me; you definitely need more than a miracle to avoid getting caught by traffic police let alone to reach home safely," whispered Sakura quietly to Syaoran. There was no time for her to really be mad at Syaoran as she saw that they were creating more and more unwanted curiosities from their surrounding.

"What would you do next then? To have some fun with him while you were sending me off with a taxi just like that?" snarled Syaoran without bothered to lower down his volume.

"I am not the one who asks for this, Syaoran. Let me refresh your mind with what you've said to me only a moment ago; as far as my smart brain could remember, you said that you could not care less whether I am going home by walking, crawling or using other kinds of means. So, I don't see any problems with Yukito-Sempai driving me home since it is definitely qualify to be one of the means that you've mentioned in your small piece of information you gave me just now, right?" hissed Sakura impatiently. She tried to shake off Syaoran's strong grip at her wrist to no avail. In the end she could only send a menacing glare to the guy although it was proven to be a futile attempt since he clearly did not give any kinds of reactions whatsoever upon her frantic acts.

"Well, I do see the problem in here, Little Girl and that is the fact that you're going home with a stranger like him." Sakura's jaw almost dropped when she saw Syaoran jabbing Yukito's chest harshly with his left forefinger (since his right hand still persisted to hold Sakura's wrist tightly) as he spoke rudely to her senior.

"Funny you say that since I still remember very well that you are even more of a stranger to me than him. I know Yukito-Sempai longer than I know you and as far as I see he's thousand times better than you are. Now would you please let go off my hand before I lose my patience, Big Guy," retorted Sakura in the lowest volume that she could manage in between her irritation.

Syaoran did not bother himself to say anything upon listening to Sakura's heated remarks and he almost literally dragged her to leave their table and left Yukito behind.

Yukito startled for a moment with Syaoran's sudden action. However, he noticed just like what Sakura said that all the people in the restaurant had stopped eating their dinner since they were busily gawking at the whole scene between Sakura and Syaoran all along. He did not want things to be worsened than what already was. Finally he could only follow Sakura and Syaoran quietly from behind with a worried look clearly shown on his face.

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"Li Syaoran, would you stop acting like this? You're hurting my arm for goodness sake. We have to pay first before leaving this place, remember?" whispered Sakura crossly. She had to put a lot of efforts to stop the guy from went straightaway without paying their bills. Sakura shook her head in her exasperation to understand Syaoran's immature stunts and could not help but wondering whether those kinds of acts were normal for celebrities like him since for her, Syaoran definitely could be known better as a superego rather than a superstar.

Without even took a glance at her direction, Syaoran impatiently took his wallet and straightaway passed it over to Sakura.

"What do you want me to do with this, Big Guy?"

"Just pick one of the credit cards in there so that we could leave this damn place faster," replied Syaoran.

Sakura had to struggle with her free hand that was not being gripped by Syaoran to open the wallet. She was quite surprise and almost let out an audible gasp when she saw her picture inside Syaoran's branded wallet. It was one of the pictures from those horrifying articles that she kept bumping into everywhere she went that day. However, much to her relief; Syaoran failed to notice anything peculiar with her since he was busily mumbling incoherent words at nobody in particular. Still, she only could push her curiosity on what's her picture doing in Syaoran's wallet to the back of her mind since she had a lot of more important things to handle and think about at the moment rather than worrying over such trivial matter like that.

And much to Sakura's annoyance, Syaoran still refused to let go her hand so that he could sign the credit card bill with his hand in what any ordinary people would think as a normal way of signing a receipt. However, apparently that would never be the case for Li Syaoran. As he happened to seize Sakura's wrist with his right hand that he always used to write (he was a right-handed and definitely never trained his left hand to write anything in his entire life), it was almost impossible for him to sign the bill properly while still continue holding Sakura with the same hand. She really could not blame all the cashiers in the counter for giving them odd looks since she would react the same way if she was in their position. All she wanted to do at the moment actually was to smack Syaoran's head very hard with her free hand as a well-deserved payback for all the humiliation that she had got so far thanks to his lunatic behaviors that he unabashedly displayed all the time.

Amid of the unnecessary troubles that Syaoran had successfully made, Sakura finally noticed that Yukito was standing beside her with a concern look etched on his handsome face. She did not know what to do besides spoke apologetically to him, "I'm really sorry for all the troubles that we have imposed on you this evening, Yukito-Sempai. I don't know what's going on with Li Syaoran tonight since he never acts as crazy as this before. By the way, could you please help me calling a taxi and ask one of your chauffeurs to drive his car back to my house, Sempai?"

Yukito smiled warmly and replied, "No need to worry about those things at all, Sakura-Chan. I will ask one of my chauffeurs to drive you home so you don't have to take a taxi and just let my other chauffeur drove Li-Kun's car back at your place. It's a pity for me not to be able to drive you home tonight but I don't want to cause more troubles if I insist to do so, Sakura-Chan." He glanced at Syaoran's strong grip that still settled at Sakura's wrist and chuckled softly.

Sakura failed to comprehend the meaning behind the subtle words from Yukito. However, before she had any chance to ask him further, Syaoran impatiently jerked her arm to get her attention back to him.

When Syaoran noticed that Sakura was staring reproachfully at him, Syaoran snapped, "Let's go, Little Girl." He had lost all his moods completely to pretend to be a nice gentleman that night thanks to the unwanted guest Yukito whatever his name was and he obviously could not stand to see the sequel of the happy conversation between that guy and Sakura any longer.

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When they were already inside Yukito's car and his chauffeur had started the engine, Sakura could not help but to let out a tired sigh. She could only glance over towards Syaoran who was sitting quietly beside her. He was no longer holding her wrist and merely staring at nothing in particular outside the black tinted window with both hands buried deeply inside his pockets.

"I really did not understand any of your actions today at all, Big Guy; everything you did the whole day was completely beyond my comprehension. When I am starting to think that probably despite your arrogance and conceited-self, still hidden somewhere deep within your rotten heart some good traits that could help you becoming a decent man. Well, I guess I am wrong; you're really an incurable jerk, Li Syaoran. Now would you care to explain to me what's your problem in the first place that apparently has made you daringly embarrassing me in front of Yukito-Sempai like that?" said Sakura, breaking the stillness inside the car with her words. She glared at Syaoran with an obvious wrath emanating from her.

Sakura could not believe after all the damages that Syaoran had inflicted on her while they were in the restaurant; the guy did not even trouble himself to explain any sensible reasoning behind all his immature acts during their nightmarish dinner there.

However, Sakura almost startled when suddenly Syaoran decided to stare intently at her.

Sakura jibed angrily at Syaoran while she slightly changed her position to take a better look at him "What? You don't have anything to say since what I've said about you is tru…"

However only within less than a couple of seconds, Sakura's eyes widened in shock since Syaoran apparently preferred to give her a non-verbal reply rather than retorted to her cynical derision a moment before.

As at that exact time, Syaoran obviously had opted to give her a tight embrace while locking his lips passionately over hers rather than giving her any answers to all the questions that she had thrown at him in the first place.

In between the dizziness and her vain attempts to escape from all the hot and wet kisses that Syaoran continued planting on her lips; Sakura could only curse herself silently. She should have known better by now than to taunt somebody who happened to be very drunk and extremely angry with her especially when that somebody happened to be Li Syaoran.

-- to be continued --

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