Time Frame: The next morning.

Arthur's Notes: Sorry the chapters are coming out so slow, but I have a lot of work from school.

So please don't hate me because of it. I try to release one chapter every 2 to 3 days if not sooner.

I just found out that Syaoran is the correct form of spelling his name, not Syaoron.

However, for the consistency of the story I will continue to use Syaoron.

Translations: Wei-the Chinese equivalent of Moshi Moshi.

Just like Syaoron stands for Xiao Lang, which means little wolf.

Syaohu means little tiger.

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The wind chime sounded softly as a gentle breeze jingled it and died out as quickly as it had entered. Syaoron's eyes opened slowly and found himself staring into the face of a sleeping beauty. Sometime during the night Sakura had turned in Syaoron's arms to face him. She had her head pillowed on his right arm. Her hands were clasped on his chest and her hair was spread out around her like an amber halo. She had a soft smile on her lips and the expression of pure contentment made her even more beautiful.

Syaoron turned around to look at the clock on his wall and saw that it was almost 9. 'Well at least its Saturday, that means we wont have to get up until we feel like it," thought Syaoron as he turned back to his Ying Fa. She looked so peaceful, and with the smile on her face and the soft light, diffused by the curtains, lighting her features in a vibrant hue, she looked so much like the girl he fell in love with all those years ago.

He wanted to kiss her, but he knew that if he did that then he would be admitting to himself that he wasn't as strong as he thought. And that was something he simply would not do. But then again it was becoming so hard to be with her and not kiss her. There had been no shortage of kisses since they became a couple, but she was just something that he could never get enough of. He could stay here and stare at her heavenly features until the end of time, but he wanted to kiss her until then even more. Sakura was by no stretch of the imagination weak or the kind of person who needed to be protected, yet when he looks at her he feels not only love, devotion, loyalty and warmth, he also feels an incontrollable urge to protect her. He would gladly give his life if it could mean that she would never be harmed in any way. He would give anything to know that she would always be happy.

He had been staring at her the whole time that these thoughts went through his mind and had felt that his love for her could never be greater then it already was. But he was wrong, he could never love her enough and he would never be able to deserve her or her love, all he could do is make sure that she was happy and to love her with every last fiber of his being.

Even though he was staring at her with so much concentration, he still didn't notice her opening her eyes until she spoke.

"Morning handsome," said Sakura.

"Huh? Oh! Good morning sleeping beauty," Syaoron said as he was shaken from his thoughts by her melody of a voice.

"When did you wake up?" Sakura asked.

"About ten minutes ago," replied Syaoron as he looked over at the clock again and realizing that he had been thinking for 10 minutes.

"So what do you want to do today?" queried Sakura.

"I don't know, but staying here is pretty nice."

As he said this he pulled her closer and pressed his forehead against hers. Sakura giggled at his answer and this made him smile. Her happiness was always so infectious and no one ever seemed to be able to be sad when they were around her when she was happy.

Then just as he was pulling her closer and she was holding onto him tighter, her stomach growled.

"Well it appears that your stomach has different ideas about how we spend our day."

This made Sakura to laugh sheepishly and sweatdrop a little.

Reluctantly Syaoron pulled himself away from his love and padded over to his chair and picked up a pair of sweat pants and put them on. "Go take a shower while I make breakfast. It should be done by the time you're done." As he turned around to look at her he suddenly felt a lump in his throat. She was wearing the same things she had on last night when she fell asleep. She had on a large t-shirt and it fell slightly off her left shoulder and the shine on her soft brown hair, she looked even more like a goddess. Syaoron felt the familiar stirrings of his body every time he saw the innocence of her features. To avoid being embarrassed he quickly turned and left the room to prepare their food.

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When he returned he found her drying her hair with one of his green towels. She had changed into a light pink v-neck shirt and a pair of jeans. Even in such simple clothes and without makeup she still looked more beautiful than all the models of the world put together.

He walked over to the couch and placed the tray with all the food on the coffee table. He sat down in front of the couch and waited until she was done. She put down the towel and walked over to the love of her life and sat down in between his legs.

"Hey! I can't eat like this," complained Syaoron.

"So?"

Syaoron didn't seem to have an answer for that one word question and he thought to himself, 'What is wrong with me? I have the most beautiful woman on the face of this planet sitting between my legs and I'm complaining. I must be a fool if I'm complaining about this.'

He didn't answer and instead just he slid his arms around her waist and she started to eat.

They ate breakfast and discussed what they would do today. As they did so Sakura would feed Syaoron his food. They would alternate using the fork and Sakura was always the one who would be using it. The whole time all that Syaoron would do was hold her close and served as her cushion.

After they finished breakfast, Syaoron got up and went to clean the dishes. Sakura sat down on the couch and turned on the TV. She watched some random shows until Syaoron was done with the dishes. He came back and settled down on the couch. Sakura moved over to sit next to him and rested her head on his shoulder. Syaoron circled his left arm around her waist and pulled her closer. They sat like this until the show ended.

"So what do you wanna do today? Besides staying in," asked Syaoron.

"I don't know," replied Sakura. "You decide."

Syaoron seemed to ponder this for a moment until the phone rang. He reached over to the coffee table and picked up the handset.

Beep.

"Wei?"

"Hi uncle," replied Ming.

"I told you to stop calling me that!" said Syaoron. "So what's up?"

"Not much, Yuan just called me to ask if I wanted to go to the mall with her, and I was wondering if the two of you would like to go with us."

"Two of us?"

"Of course. Sakura didn't come back last night and there wouldn't be any other place where she would be."

"Oh… sure I guess we'll go with you."

"Cool, meet us on the food court next to the McDonald's in about an hour, okay?"

"Kay, see you there."

Click.

"Well now we do have something to do," said Syaoron as he turned to Sakura.

"Why? Where are we going?" asked Sakura as she was brushing her hair.

"We're meeting Ming, Yuan and a few others at the food court of the mall in an hour."

"Oh, okay. I guess we better get ready."

"Yup," said Syaoron as they got up and went to change.

They had agreed to meet in his room in 15 minutes and Sakura left to go back to the dorm room she shared with Ming to change. Syaoron picked some random things from his closet and proceeded to change out of his sweat pants and t-shirt.

Exactly 15 minutes later there was knock on his door, and Syaoron turned to open it and found his love on the other side. She was wearing a simple whit sweater and the same jeans she wore earlier. She held in her arms her white down coat. She till had no makeup on, so her natural beauty shone even more. He noticed that she was giggling and wondered why that was. Then he noticed that his mouth was hanging open and he could have sworn that he was drooling.

He quickly closed his mouth and grabbed his overcoat. He closed his door and locked it. He turned around and took her hand. They walked to the elevator and pushed the down button, when it came and the door opened, they walked in and headed down to the lobby.

They got in Syaoron's forest green Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited and drove off towards the mall.

It took them nearly 40 minutes to get to the mall and another few minutes to find a parking space. By the time they got to the food court they were late by about 6 minutes. They saw the group of their friends at one of the tables closer to the promenade.

Jia-luo the junior co-captain of the soccer team was sitting next to Ming, his girlfriend. Yuan sat next to her boyfriend, Leung Shan, a sophomore member of the swimming team. Qiou sat next to her boyfriend, Li Syaohu, a junior track star and cousin of Syaoron's.

Ming saw the two of them approach and waved to them. As the others noticed the pair of Card Captors approaching, they too waved hello to their friends.

Syaoron and Sakura came up to the table just as the rest of the group stood up.

"Now that we're all here, we can decide on what we want to do fro today," said Ming, holding Jia-luo's hand.

Syaoron and Syaohu warily eyed the man who was not only holding their niece's hand but also her heart. Jia-luo seemed to cringe under the intense gaze of his co-captain and his roommate. Ming however, didn't seem fazed at all. She pulled Jia-luo's head own and kissed him. This caused her 'uncles' to fall down anime style.

Ming pretended not to notice the silly attitudes of her relatives and suggested that the girls and the guys go off in different groups and do their own thing. Most everyone agreed to this, but it was a bit harder to drag Sakura and Syaoron apart. Eventually the others managed to separate the pair, and pulled them off in different directions to do some shopping.

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Meanwhile across the promenade Xin had been watching the group closely along with some of his guys. They were the inner circle of the school basketball team and they were led by Xin.

After the lovebirds were pulled apart by their friends Xin saw his chance to move in and take his prize. He and his group proceeded to follow the heavenly cherry blossom.

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After three hours of shopping every store in the mall the girls were tired, but happy. Each had almost a dozen bags and each had spent far too much money.

They sat on one of the benches by the food court. This was where they told the guys to meet them after they were finished. The plan was to go shopping for about three hours then get lunch and after lunch, the group would relax with a movie.

While the girls were waiting for their guys Xin and his guys came up to them.

None of the girls were too happy to see Xin and his group of dumb jocks. Even though their boyfriends were all jocks, they were also highly intelligent and all four of the guys had some level of training in the traditional kung fu fighting stances of China.

"Hello ladies. What brings you to the mall on a beautiful day like this?" asked Xin as he walked up to Sakura. "Wouldn't it be nicer if you were outside in the sun?"

"You may be right about that," answered Sakura.

"Yeah, we'll tell our boyfriends when they get back," piped in Qiou.

"Why wait for those slowpokes when you have perfectly fine men here, now?" asked Zhou Tim, a freshman guard, as he tried to be get the attention of Qiou.

"Yeah, we'd be more than willing to escort such beautiful ladies as yourself to the park," added Kin Lee, a sophomore forward, bowing in an over exaggerated manner for Ming.

"Thanks but no thanks, we'll wait for our boyfriends," replied Yuan, with an emphasis on the word 'boyfriend', as she was trying to ignore the flirtatious looks sent to her by Sou Max, a sophomore guard.

Xin was not at all put off by the obvious rebuttals by four of the most beautiful girls on campus. And in their next series of entreaties they became more insistent. They weren't willing to take 'no' for an answer.

Sakura and the girls were starting to get nervous by the lustful and determined looks the basketball players were giving them. But then she felt an all to familiar aura nearing them, and suddenly her fears melted away to be replaced by the sense of warmth and security the green presence provided.

"Today is such a wonderful day it's a shame to have to spe…" offered Xin in yet another and this time more insistent manner. However, this time he was interrupted by the piercing words of one Li Syaoron.

"Hello Xin," greeted Syaoron in a calm tone. His face was a mask, which revealed no emotions. His eyes however, were glaring daggers at Xin. And if looks could really kill, then Xin and a hundred generations of his descendants would have been dead already. The athletes who stood with him were doing similar things to the men who were trying to court their girlfriends.

"Hello Li," spat out Xin as if it were something distasteful.

"Excuse us, but we are here to pick up our girlfriends," said Syaohu as he tried to reach for Qiou's hand.

Tim however, got in the way of Syaohu's hand. "I'm sorry but we were talking to them."

"Right, you were talking, we were waiting for them," said Ming as she pointed to their boyfriends.

"So now, if you will excuse us we will leave you to your 'talk'," said Jia-luo as he took hold of Ming's hand and pulled her to him.

The other's did likewise and wrapped their arms around their significant others to comfort them.

As the four couples turned to leave Xin placed a hand on Syaoron's shoulder to stop him. "I'm sorry but we weren't finished," he said in a cold tone dropping all pretense of civility.

"You are now," said Syaoron as he brushed Xin's hand off his shoulder.

That had been the last straw for Xin, 'No one turns their back to me.' He proceeded to work himself up to punching Syaoron's head from behind as the couple walked away from him.

Syaoron had sensed that Xin was going to attack and decided to end it quick. Just as Xin was getting close enough to punch Syaoron, he brought his arm up in a swift and clean motion smashing it right into Xin's nose. The force of the powerful blow sent Xin crashing back into his men and sent them all to the floor. The couples turned around once again to see Xin's nose bleeding and probably broken.

"Stay away from Sakura Xin or next time it'll be more than just your nose," warned Syaoron with a fire in his eyes and a glare that would make even the bravest of men quiver in fear.

With that said the group turned and left the scene. They decided to leave the mall and eat at another location. They headed for a Chinese restaurant about a block away from the mall and had lunch.

After lunch they drove to a nearby multiplex and saw the new Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh movie, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

During the movie the four couples snuggled and whispered sweet nothings to each other.

Sakura had all but forgotten about the episode at the food court. However, Syaoron had been racking his mind about what he did. He had been thinking so much that he hadn't heard Sakura speaking to him, and when he didn't respond after a few minutes she started to get concerned.

"What's wrong?" asked Sakura.

"Huh… Oh nothing," replied Syaoron halfheartedly.

"I don't believe you. C'mon tell me what's wrong," asked Sakura again.

He looked at her face and noticed the concerned look on her face.

"Well I guess its just that… I'm sorry," admitted Syaoron.

"For what? For hitting that oaf of a man, Xin?" queried Sakura. "Well if it is about that then there is nothing for you to be sorry about. He deserved it. He just would leave us alone and if you didn't get there when you did, I think that either Ming or I would have decked him."

"It's not about that that I'm sorry for. I know that he deserved it and I feel no remorse that I did it. It's just that I feel bad that you had to see that side of me. I'm sorry that you had to see me when I'm like that. I never wanted you to see that side of me, the side that just loses control and does things without thinking them through."

"Well weren't those times that you caught Clow Cards with me, times that you were like that?"

"No, because during those times I was fighting because it was my duty to capture the cards and to protect you. The incident with Xin was where I did it simply because I felt like it and I did it because I wanted to hurt him."

"Well in a way you were protecting me and the others because if you and the guys didn't come back when you did, then who knows what they would have tried on us."

Syaoron seemed to think about this and finally found that it was a very logical way of reasoning his actions. Even if it didn't take away his guilt, it most certainly did help justify his actions. And he was happy with that.

"You know, you're very smart," said Syaoron.

"I know, that's why you love me," said Sakura with a bright smile.

"No, I love you because you have a pure heart and soul. I love you for your kindness, for your thoughtfulness, for the way you put the needs of others above your own and for the way you are able to make me smile when nothing else can."

His words just seemed to make her smile even more brilliantly and with intensifying of her smile the same could be said of her beauty. She was even more beautiful on the dim light of the Movie Theater. It silhouetted her features and gave her a mysterious quality. As his gaze became even more intense he slowly moved closer to her until their lips were mere centimeters apart.

She was just so beautiful. He just couldn't resist anymore. 'Oh, to hell with the experiment,' he thought as he finally closed the distance between them and kissed her with all the pent up passion of a whole lifetime. It was as if he hadn't kissed her for an eternity when in reality it had barely been 24 hours since they last kissed.

The kiss lasted until they had to break away for lack of oxygen. And as soon as they were breathing again he pulled her in for another long earth shattering kiss. After they broke away for a second time they just settled into each other's arms and enjoyed the rest of the movie. Syaoron wasn't really watching the movie. Instead he was thanking whatever gods there were that he had Sakura and that she loved him. He would occasionally kiss her forehead and hold her tighter just to remind himself that this wasn't a dream but a reality and that if this was indeed a dream then it was one he would never want to wake up form.

To be continued…

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