Chapter 2: The lock up

Chapter 2: The lock up.

For the first time in a while, Sakura Kinomoto, was early to school. But of course, the consequences of that fact were that she had one eye open and the other one closed.

She was lazily putting away her books in her locker when she yanwed loudly, calling everyone's atention.

She sweatdropped and then closed the door of her locker revealing a familiar shadow standing behind it. She looked up and saw Syaoran standing there with a smile on his face and red rose on his hand.

Sakura smiled and blushed taking the flower. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." He said still smiling for her.

Although he usually never smiles, he could do it just for her. And ever since they became a couple (thanks to a misterious handcuffs), she could see him smile more frequently.

"You look kinda of tired... didn't get a good night sleep?" He asked once they started walking together to their classroom. He grab hold of her hand and locked his fingers between hers.

"No..." She answered and yawned again. "Kero stood up all night playing video games and he didn't let me sleep very well."

"That stuffed animal..." He murmured with a frown, but then changed his expression and turned to her. "But still you look beautiful..."

Sakura couldn't help but to blush again. "Hoe..."

"Konnichiwa, Sakura-chan, Li-kun!!" Tomoyo greeted when she approched them with a huge smile on her face.

"Hi, Tomoyo!" Sakura said smiling.

"Hi!" Syaoran said.

"And how are we these morning? Oh... what a nice rose, I wonder who gave it to you?" Tomoyo asked eying Syaoran suspiciously.

Syaoran sighed and rolled his eyes. "Yes, Tomoyo, I gave it to her..."

"Oh, that's soooo kawaii! I have to record this!" She exclaimed taking out her video camera.

Sakura only sweatdropped when her best friend started recording her. "Tomoyo... don't you think it's getting kinda boring recording me all the time?"

"Well, of course not, Sakura-chan! Oh, you don't look like you had a good night sleep..."

"I actually didn't." Sakura said yawning again. Somehow, everytime somebody metioned that she didn't sleep well, she yawned.

"Well, looks like somebody had a worst night..." Syaoran comented when he saw Eriol passing by them with a very depressed look on his face, something very unlike him.

"Hey, Eriol-kun!" Sakura greeted.

He stopped walking and turned to them composing himself and hidding his left hand behind his back. "Konnichiwa, Sakura-chan, Li-kun, Daidouji-san!" He greeted politely.

Tomoyo rolled her eyes and turned her head in another direction. "Good morning, Hiiragizawa-kun." She said and then turned to Sakura. "Come on, Sakura-chan, let's go to the classroom, we have service today!"

Sakura and Syaoran shared glares for a while, then she shruged and took off with Tomoyo.

* * *

Sakura and Tomoyo walked quietly to the classroom. Sakura had noticed that her best friend had been acting a little weird every time she was with Eriol, so she decided to drop the question.

"Tomoyo... did something happened between you and Eriol-kun?"

Tomoyo stopped. She had a frown on her face and was looking at the floor. A misterious sound, more like a growl, escapped her lips and then she answered. "No, nothing happened. It's just that Hiiragizawa-kun it's just a baka!" She cried making emphazis on the word baka.

"Nani? Why do you say that?" She asked with a puzzled look.

Tomoyo's eyes began to water and then she took hold of Sakura's hands. "He... he... insulted me...."

Flashback

That afternoon, Tomoyo was watching one of Sakura's famous card captoring tapes in the school auditorium when Eriol Hiiragizawa walked in.

"Hi, Tomoyo-chan... what's that you're looking?" He asked as he approched her.

"Hey, Eriol-kun... oh, this is one of Sakura's card captoring scenes I recorded. She looks so kawaii in that dress!!" She exclaimed with sparkling eyes.

"You think so? I don't think she looks nice it that dress... it's horrible, I wonder where she got it?"

Tomoyo's eyes windened in suprise. She couldn't believe her ears... the dress was horrible??! Her dress was horrible??!

"For your information... I made that dress!!" She cried angrily.

"Really??!" He asked with a confused look in his face. "Well, I don't think it's a nice dress..."

Tomoyo's eyes began to water. "It is a nice dress!! I made it especially for Sakura-chan to wear!!!" She cried and then got up from her seat to leave the room.

"Tomoyo-chan... don't be mad for something so stupid..." He said trying to calm her down, but only suceded in making her more angry.

"Well, excuse me. But I don't think it's something stupid... and I would prefer if you adress to me by my last name, Hiiragizawa-kun!" And with that she left the room.

End of flashback

A huge sweatdropped rolled down Sakura's forehead.

"You're mad at him because he said that the dress wasn't nice?" Sakura asked.

"Yes!! And he said it was horrible... how can he say something like that when all the dresses I made for you are so kawaii?? And they make you look kawaii??!" She asked dreamly thinking of new models to make.

"Uh, yeah... how could he?" Sakura asked raising and eyebrow. She sure didn't want to disagree with Tomoyo. She was pretty scary when she was mad, so decided to go along with her.

"Thank you, Sakura-chan... you always support me no matter what!" She exclaimed hugging her friend.

* * *

The first class was japanese. To much for Syaoran, who was trying hard go along with the book he was reading.

The teacher told them that they could pick any book and start reading it for the whole hour, after that they had to make an essay about the book.

Although Syaoran had almost five years living in Japan, japanese was not his favorite subject and he still had trouble knowing the meaning of some words.

He scratched his head and decided to take a small break. He closed the book and turned his atention to another part of the classroom when a misterious sparkling caught his atention.

Slowly, he turned his head to his right and saw Eriol reading a book. He trailed his eyes to his left wrist and notice a shinning object attached to it, he couldn't get a good view of it since it was half covered by the sleeve of his uniform.

"Hiiragizawa...."

"Hmm?" He asked turning his atention to him.

"... what's that?" Syaoran asked indicating the gold shinning object on his hand.

Eriol looked down to his wrist and paled when he discovered that the handcuffs were showing a little. Quickly he covered it with his right hand and pulled down the sleeve.

"It's nothing..." He lied turning his atention back to the book.

Syaoran eyed him suspicoiusly. He certainly didn't get along very well with Eriol, but he knew when he was acting weird. Especially, since he hasn't picked on him during the day.

He looked one more time at Eriol's left wrist before turning back to his own book again. *Nothing? We'll see about that...*

* * *

"Why... are you wearing a jacket?" Asked Syaoran eying Eriol in a suspicious way.

Eriol turned his atetion to Syaoran. Took a deep breath and then answered his question.

"I'm cold."

"You're a cold? We are in plain summer and you are cold?"

"Yeah, it's pretty chilly out here." He answered hidding his left hand behind his back.

They were in P.E. The guys just changed their uniforms and were about to start a soccer game, when Eriol came out of the locker room wearing a jacket.

By that time Syaoran knew perfectly well that he was hidding something. But what could it be? What could the reincarnation of Clow Reed posibly be hidding from everyone else?!

Whatever it was, it was on his left wrist. And he was going to find out what it was no matter what.

"Sure... whatever you say." Syaoran said sendng him a 'I-know-you-are-hiding-something' glare.

Eriol only smiled one of his evil grins and then turned his atention to something else. He was aware that his cute descendant was suspecting something so he had to be careful with every step he took from now on.

* * *

Math was the last class they had that day. The new teacher, Takamashi-sensei, was explaining something about the assignment they had to do when Sakura fell into dream land.

Syaoran who was seated behind her, noticed this and stared at her for a moment. She looked so cute when she was sleeping, even though it wasn't the time to actually be sleeping.

"Sakura..." He whispered into her ear. When he didn't get an answer from her, he called louder. "Sakura!... Sakura!!!"

"NANI??! Syaoran??!" She cried out loud, waking up from her dream.

Every single person in the classroom turned to see the now blushing Sakura and cracked up in laughs.

"Miss Kinomoto... I asume that you had a very pleasent dream?" Asked Takamashi-sensei eying her suspiciosly. "But I would be grateful if you pay atention to what I'm saying! That goes for you too Li-san!"

"Hai, hai..." Both Sakura and Syaoran nodded and looked down, still blushing.

"You were dreaming about me?" Syaoran whispered into Sakura's ear with a mischievous tone. Sakura only blushed in response.

He sighed and leaned back into his seat smiling.

It had been quite a boring day for Syaoran and right now he wasn't in a mood for math, even though it was his favorite subject.

He trailed his eyes around the classroom and found himself looking at Eriol's left wrist again. What was that misterious bulge?? He spent all day trying to figure it out, but everytime he was close to see whatever it was, Eriol covered it with his hand or sleeve.

*Damn, Hiiragizawa...* He thought and turned his atention back to the teacher.

"The exercises are on page 58 and it'll afect your grades, so please pair up with the person behind you and start the assignment..." Takamashi-sensei trailed off, while the class started to settle.

Syaoran stretched and then looked up to see Sakura who was alredy turned around smiling at him. He smiled back at her and then searched for his math book inside his school bag, but when he turned around he finally saw it.

Eriol was fixing his glasses on his face with his left hand, when his sleeve falled down revealing the gold handcuffs that Syaoran immediately recognized. They were the same handcuffs that a couple of months ago locked him and Sakura together.

His eyes windended in suprise when a evil idea crossed his mind. It was payback time, payback for all the things Eriol had done to him...

"All right... let's just get this over with." Tomoyo said turning around to her right to face Eriol.

Eriol sighed and then looked at her. "Sure, Daidouji-san..."

And there was his chance. In a quick move, Syaoran grabbed hold of the other side of the handcuff that was showing and locked it on Tomoyo's right wrist with a loud and, somehow, glad to his ears, clang.

Eriol's eyes popped out of his socket when the same scene repeated in front of his eyes in slow motion over and over again.

He blinked a couple of times and then came back to reality, to face a suprised Tomoyo, now attached to him by the handcuffs.

"What did you do?!?!" Cried Eriol turning to Syaoran with a real evil look.

"Hey... they locked up." Syaoran commented,suprised to the fact that the handcuffs only closed on two people that had 'potential for true love'. *Hiiragizawa and Daidouji?!?!*

"What?" Asked Tomoyo, now realizing what just happened. She looked at her right wrist and found a gold handcuff attached to it. She trailed her eyes and found on the other side another wrist, that happened to be Eriol's left wrist. "Hey, I recognize these things.... nooooo....."

"What locked?" Asked Sakura turning her atetion to Tomoyo and Eriol.

"NO!!! This can't be happening!!!!" Yelled Tomoyo trying to take off the handcuffs.

"All right! That's it... Kinomoto, Li, Daidouji and Hiiragizawa... I had enough of you. You're all going to detention!!" Takamashi-sensei cried losing her temper. She usually wasn't a moody teacher but this had done it.

"But what did I do?" Sakura asked with a sad look on her face.

"Now!" Cried Takamashi-sensei.

They all got up from their seats and headed to the detention room.

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A/N: And that's all for chapter 2! Of course there is more to come, just be pacient! We don't like cliffhangers, but school has gotten into us! *Cries again* This just sucks!

Anyway, we hope you enjoy it! And please send us your reviews and comments. Arigato!