Chapter 5
Well, here I am again! I got loads of help from Kyralea on this one.
I confess. She's great (this is really killing my ego).
She is the Queen of Mush, and she didn't tell
me to write this either! No kidding! The fuzzies were her idea.
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These characters belong to clamp. Not me. Them (Except Kris. He's mine! And Stardust)
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Sakura awoke to a hand stroking her hair. She turned her head, and discovered Li,
his hair back to its original brown color. She gasped in surprise, and looked at the
clock. 9: 30.
"Why do you have to be so punctual?" she asked sleepily.
"Some things are just worth it," he replied. He smiled at her.
"You fixed your hair," she said. Her heart was going a million miles a minute.
"Why not have more proof that it's me? I didn't really like it that much anyway.
The black hair freaked me out sometimes."
"It kind of looked weird, at first, but as long as you're attached to it, I wouldn't care if it was blue,"
Sakura looked at him, warm fuzzies all in her stomach.
"I missed you so much." Li whispered. He stroked her cheek. Her eyes fluttered
closed, and Li kissed her softly. Sakura couldn't take it anymore. The fuzzies were
taking over. She pulled him closer, and kissed him even more deeply. She wrapped
her arms around his neck, and his arm fell loosely around her waist. They finally
parted.
"And I thought you weren't a morning person." Li said breathlessly.
"You started it," she said. She pulled him into another kiss, which did not help to
get rid of the fuzzies, which were starting to drive her mad.
"I always wondered what it would be like to wake up next to you," he said, once
they paused to catch their breath. Sakura blushed. They started kissing again.
"Sakura! Time to get up! I made breakfast!" Tori said, walking into her room
without knocking.
Sakura didn't even blink, but kept kissing Li. Tori gasped. He only took about 3
steps, and ended up by the side of her bed, pulling Li away from her. Li looked at
him and grinned.
"Tori, What did you do that for?" Sakura and Tori glared, then he gasped again.
"What do you mean, what did I do that for? There's some strange guy in your
room, early in the morning, and your kissing him, and your still in your pajamas!"
Tori yelled.
"It could be worse. She could not have anything on at all," Li pointed out, still
grinning. Apparently the fuzzies had gotten to him, too.
"WHAT!?!?!?!?" Tori freaked! Talk about cardiac arrest. HOW DARE YOU
TALK TO ME ABOUT MY SISTER LIKE THAT!?!? WIPE THAT SMILE OFF
OF YOUR FACE YOU LITTLE RAPIST!!!!!!"
"This is none of your business! You came here to wake me up, you can see that I'm
awake, so leave!" Sakura said.
"Are you nuts?!?!? You Are! You're crazy!" He looked at Sakura. " I'm taking this
guy down to dad …" Tori turned, looking for Li, but he couldn't see him.
All of a sudden, Kero popped out of the sock drawer.
"Would you people SHUT UP!! What's a guardian beast gotta do to get a little sleep around here?!?!?"
Tori's mouth hung open.
"WHAT IS THIS, GIVE-YOUR-OLDER-BROTHER-A-HEART-ATTACK
DAY?!?!?!?!?! What the hell is this thing?!?!?"
Sakura grabbed Kero out of the air.
"I THOUGHT I turned this thing off!" Sakura hissed through her teeth. Kero got the hint.
"Where did that thing go?!?" Tory said, talking about Li.
Sakura felt a hand brush her cheek.
"I think he went downstairs, you know, to sneak out the door?" she said, trying to
sound normal. He actually fell for it. Now that is dense. Sakura grabbed the hand on
her cheek.
"That was close," she said, trying to see him. But of course she couldn't.
He seemed to know what she wanted. He grabbed her other hand and put it to his
cheek. She realized what he was up to.
"Why don't you just make it so that I can see you?"
"Your bodyguard might come back."
"Then make yourself invisible when he does," Sakura said, the fuzzies getting
the best of her.
Li kissed her, and he was still invisible. Sakura kissed him back, very weirded out.
Kero, who was still in the room, gave the eyebrow.
"Sakura, you really need a boyfriend. I'm starting to wonder…" he trailed off.
Li finally reappeared. Kero flew up in his face.
"YOU! You're that kid who always was a jerk! I'd recognize that smell anywhere!"
Li looked at Sakura. "I really feel welcomed to this family," he said sarcastically,
"And I do not smell!" he said, glaring at Kero.
"I don't care. I still hate you." Kero said smugly.
"OH COME ON!!! I WAS TEN YEARS OLD!!! I DIDN"T KNOW YOU"D BE SO
INSULTED BY BEING CALLED A STUFFED ANIMAL!!!!"
"That doesn't change a thing," Kero said, his nose high in the air.
"Never mind that. We have more important things to do today." Sakura said.
"Like what?" Li asked her.
"Like visiting old friends…" Sakura had a sly look in her eyes.
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"Hi, Tomoyo? What are you doing today?…….. Could you meet me in the park by
the fountain? ……… Oh, well, there's someone I want you to see….. No way! You'll
just have to wait till we get there! …… Okay, see you in ten. Bye."
Sakura hung up the phone.
"This is going to be FUN. Just go invisible so we can get out of the house, then you
can go back to normal, okay?"
"Gotcha." Li used the card and disappeared.
Sakura took off, motioning for the invisible Li to follow her.
"Dad, I'm going out!" she yelled.
"Sakura? What was your brother hollering about?"
"I don't know. I think it was something about the cat eating his hemorrhoid cream?
I'm not sure." She heard Li snort, trying hard not to laugh.
And with that, they ran out the door.
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Tomoyo walked briskly to the park, eager to meet this mystery person her best
friend was apparently going crazy over. She rounded the corner and was
approaching the fountain when she saw them. Sakura and some guy, and it looked
like they were trying to eat each other's faces, that's are how into it they were!
"' Sure is a fast learner," Tomoyo muttered as she approached them, reflecting on
the fact that Sakura had never gone out with anyone.
"Uh, hi Sakura! Having fun?"
Sakura spun around, blushing madly. "Oh, uh, you could say that!"
"Uh huh. Hey, you're that guy from the party, right?" she nudged Sakura and
whispered in her ear "He looks even better in daylight!"
"Yep, that's me, the guy from the party!"
Sakura clung to his neck, "We're dating!" she said, trying not to laugh at the
puzzled look Tomoyo was giving her.
"Well, I'm going to go get us some ice cream," she said, motioning to the shop across
the street. "why don't you two stay here and, talk for a bit."
"R.r.i.i.i.g.h.t," Tomoyo said looking even more puzzled.
Sakura winked at Li devilishly. Tomoyo made some kind of noise that sounded like a cross
between a gasp and a heart attack. Sakura left. Li and Tomoyo sat down on a bench.
"WOAH!!," she said, once Sakura was out of hearing range. "You must be pret_ty good!"
"Why's that?"
"To make her break her promise to Li Syaoran. I thought she'd die single!"
"Who's that?" Li asked, playing it up.
"Well, long long ago, there was this guy who moved here from China.
To make a long story shhooort….. He promised her that he would come back some day,
and she promised that she would wait for him, if you get my meaning."
Li nodded.
"Any ways, everyone knew that he wouldn't come back, like, ever. And I don't care how
much he said that he liked her; she had to get on with life. Everyone thought so, even though
I was the only one who ever told her.
"I see. What was this guy like?" he asked trying to stop the corners of his mouth from curling up.
"WEEEELL, he was the cutest kid. I even had a crush on him at one time He was
really serious all the time, and he blushed really easy. He had GORGEOUS amber
colored eyes;. And his hair was chestnut brown -Kind of like yours -Hey didn't it
used to be black? - Anyways, Sakura really liked him a lot, and I guess it took her a
long time……….OH NO! What have I just done?!? Now you'll be thinking that you
have to be just like him or Sakura won't like you!! Just kill me now before she does!!!"
"I don't think there's much chance of that," Li said, grinning widely.
"What, you trying to be like him, or you killing me before she does?"
"Neither."
"So you really like her, huh?"
"Let's just say, I've already picked names for our children."
"This relationship sure is moving fast!" Sakura giggled from behind them. She
handed Li an ice cream cone. He REALLY blushed this time!
Tomoyo FREAKED! "How long have you been standing there!?!?! What did you hear?!?!?!"
"I heard enough to know what my next birthday present will be!" she giggled
madly. If it was possible, Li turned even a darker shade of beet red!
"We were just making small talk…uh, right?" Tomoyo said, giving Li the look.
"So, what are their names?" Sakura asked Li, still giggling.
'I can make this turn out better than we thought it would' he thought to himself, suddenly getting an idea.
"Nikki, Rita, Chelsea, and Zachary," he said, trying to look like he wasn't making it up.
"Wow, what a coincidence, those are the names of our friends!" Tomoyo exclaimed, totally clueless.
"I don't think I introduced myself did I? My name is Tomoyo."
"Nice to see you again. My name is Syaoran Li." He held out his hand for her to shake it.
"YOU ARE SO SICK!"
"It's true!" he told her.
"YEAH RIGHT! Prove it!"
"Force, know my plight." He smiled at her evilly. He pulled the lasin board out of thin air and
twirled it between his two index fingers.
Tomoyo's jaw dropped open.
"Sakura, do you have any Clow cards on you?"
"Waaahaaa?!?!?! No way!!! You're not…. You can't be!!! AAAAAAAAAAH!!!
Please excuse me while I go kick my own ass!!!!!"
By this time, Sakura was rolling on the ground, laughing_ her_guts_out! She
slowly stood up after about a minute, tears in her eyes, still laughing, and pointed at
her. "You were SO sure that you were right!! IN_ YOUR_FACE!!"
Tomoyo made a very strange noise somewhere in her nose. "I am SO sorry! I will
never doubt you again! How did you pull this off?!?!?"
"Actually, it was pretty easy! I knew that you'd be to happy to think I was finally moving
on to ask the obvious questions!"
"So, you had a crush on me at one point?" Li asked Tomoyo mischievously.
Tomoyo turned nearly purple "Only a small one!" she squeaked.
"Sakura, were my eyes really as GORGEOUS as she said they were?"
"They still are."
Li smiled. "Hey, you know, we haven't even gone on a real date yet."
Sakura searched around in her coat pocket for a minute and pulled out the concert
tickets that Tomoyo had given her. She looked at the date and time that was printed
on them.
"How about, Friday at seven o'clock?" she asked him.
"Sounds great! What are we going to see?"
"Stardust!"
"I love that band!"
Tomoyo was still standing there, a deep red tint to her usually pale face. She was in
shock of the fact that she was wrong. "Hellooooooo! I'm still he-ere!"
"Yeah, how could we forget? YOU had a crush on my man," Sakura said teasing her.
"SOOOOOOOOOO BUSTED!" Li grinned.
Tomoyo turned even a deeper shade of purple. Then she smiled. 'I'll get out of this
with a compliment' she thought.
"Well, what do you expect? You're hot!" She said. Li blushed light pink (They're
blushing an awful lot) at this. Sakura wrapped her arms around him from behind.
"Actually, you're hotter than hot, but I have to say that that was NOT the right
thing to say, if you wanted to fix what you just said," She glared at Tomoyo.
"Hey, what's that noise?" Sakura asked. She looked to the right. Nikki and Chelsea
were coming their way, giggling at some unknown joke. Sakura smiled devilishly.
"Maybe we can fit more than one freaked out person into the day," she said, looking at Li.
Tomoyo smiled "Yeah, we can find out if they had a crush on you too. Then maybe some of the
attention will be directed AWAY from me!!"
"I don't get it. First, you complain that we're not paying enough attention to you,
and then you don't want us to pay attention to you! Will you make up your mind?" Sakura said.
Tomoyo gave her the look.
"Oh no! They're closing in!" Sakura said. She ran around to the front of the bench and sat on
Li's lap. He couldn't even get a surprised look on her face before she started kissing him passionately.
'What a sex maniac!' thought Tomoyo, shaking her head. She blushed (yes, again).
Nikki and Chelsea walked up and gasped. Nikki made a cat call.
"Looks like SOMEBODY finally decided to get on with things" Chelsea said.
"Isn't that the guy from the party last night?" asked Nikki.
"Well, since Sakura is too busy to answer that, yes he is."
"They're pretty into it." Nikki said.
"Yeah,he must be pretty good to make her break her promise to Li Syaoran,"
Chelsea said. Tomoyo smiled, remembering the conversation she had just had with Li.
"Yeah, she was just talking about him yesterday," Tomoyo added.
"And remember? She compared the party to the bear she got in grade four!"
Li pulled away for a second.
"Really?" He whispered low enough for only Sakura to hear.
"Nothing could be better then that, except you," she whispered, and then pulled him back.
"You have to admit, he was cute!" Chelsea said.
"Oooooooh yeah! He was the cutest boy in the whole school." Nikki said.
"It was really too bad that he only liked Sakura. Why couldn't he play the field?
All the cute guys usually do"
"Well, he wasn't ever really normal," Tomoyo pointed out.
"That's one of the reasons I liked him so much!" Nikki exclaimed.
"Oh, really? You had a crush on Li" Tomoyo said, nudging Li the tiniest bit.
He smiled through the kiss.
"Well, I wouldn't really call it a crush. Just a couple re-occurring dreams about me marrying him…"
Nikki said. Li pulled away and snorted with laughter.
"DON'T!" All three girls said at the same time, stopping Sakura from pulling him back.
She frowned and got off his lap. Li smiled.
"Sooo, you had a crush on Li? Why was I not informed?" she said, glaring at the 2 girls in amusement.
"Oh, come on! I bet the whole school had a crush on him! Including the boys! And how could
you hear what we were saying? You two were so…deep in…business," Chelsea said. Sakura giggled.
"I didn't really listen. It was just kind of stored… in my head… until further… notice," She trailed off.
"Well he must be pretty hot stuff to make you break you promise to Li," Nikki said.
"Well, I guess you could say that…" she said quietly. They didn't really notice.Li blushed.
"So I'm Nikki…"
"And I'm Chelsea!" Chelsea finished. "I see you've found a way to warm your way into our friend's heart…"
"And mouth!" Nikki interjected. They girls all giggled.
"So what's with all the mystery? Why didn't you tell us your name?" Chelsea asked.
"You didn't ask me." Li said simply.
"Oookey, then, what's your name?" Nikki asked.
"Li Syaoran. It's nice to see you again. I'm glad everyone missed me so much…Even the boys, huh?"
he grinned evilly.
Both of the girls' eyes' went wide.
"YOU'RE JOKING!!!" They both screamed at the same time. Tomoyo giggled.
"He did the same thing to me." She said.
"No, no no, NO! You couldn't be Li…" Nikki stuttered.
"And why not?" he asked, giving her the eyebrow.
"You just couldn-"
"Let's look at the facts," he interrupted, "Sakura promised to wait for him. Suddenly,
out of the blue, she starts making out with some guy who's name you don't know, who
just happened to appear out of nowhere, in town, at her house. I look like Li,
I act like Li, apparently I smell like Li (they gave him the eyebrow, cuz obviously
they didn't know about Kero and his little talk), Sakura loves me, I AM Li."
Nikki and Chelsea both blushed even darker than Tomoyo had.
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Well, that's it for this chapter. I bet you never thought it would end, did ya?
Well, the next chapter won't be as long. I'm already working on it.
If anyone has any suggestions/ comments/ complaints, feel free to email me.
Go nuts. Well, okay, not literally, but you get the idea, right? No swearing or
anything though. And I feel that I absolutely have to mention Kyralea again.
She helped me sooooooooo (etc.) much on this.
Annie
Well, here I am again! I got loads of help from Kyralea on this one.
I confess. She's great (this is really killing my ego).
She is the Queen of Mush, and she didn't tell
me to write this either! No kidding! The fuzzies were her idea.
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These characters belong to clamp. Not me. Them (Except Kris. He's mine! And Stardust)
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Sakura awoke to a hand stroking her hair. She turned her head, and discovered Li,
his hair back to its original brown color. She gasped in surprise, and looked at the
clock. 9: 30.
"Why do you have to be so punctual?" she asked sleepily.
"Some things are just worth it," he replied. He smiled at her.
"You fixed your hair," she said. Her heart was going a million miles a minute.
"Why not have more proof that it's me? I didn't really like it that much anyway.
The black hair freaked me out sometimes."
"It kind of looked weird, at first, but as long as you're attached to it, I wouldn't care if it was blue,"
Sakura looked at him, warm fuzzies all in her stomach.
"I missed you so much." Li whispered. He stroked her cheek. Her eyes fluttered
closed, and Li kissed her softly. Sakura couldn't take it anymore. The fuzzies were
taking over. She pulled him closer, and kissed him even more deeply. She wrapped
her arms around his neck, and his arm fell loosely around her waist. They finally
parted.
"And I thought you weren't a morning person." Li said breathlessly.
"You started it," she said. She pulled him into another kiss, which did not help to
get rid of the fuzzies, which were starting to drive her mad.
"I always wondered what it would be like to wake up next to you," he said, once
they paused to catch their breath. Sakura blushed. They started kissing again.
"Sakura! Time to get up! I made breakfast!" Tori said, walking into her room
without knocking.
Sakura didn't even blink, but kept kissing Li. Tori gasped. He only took about 3
steps, and ended up by the side of her bed, pulling Li away from her. Li looked at
him and grinned.
"Tori, What did you do that for?" Sakura and Tori glared, then he gasped again.
"What do you mean, what did I do that for? There's some strange guy in your
room, early in the morning, and your kissing him, and your still in your pajamas!"
Tori yelled.
"It could be worse. She could not have anything on at all," Li pointed out, still
grinning. Apparently the fuzzies had gotten to him, too.
"WHAT!?!?!?!?" Tori freaked! Talk about cardiac arrest. HOW DARE YOU
TALK TO ME ABOUT MY SISTER LIKE THAT!?!? WIPE THAT SMILE OFF
OF YOUR FACE YOU LITTLE RAPIST!!!!!!"
"This is none of your business! You came here to wake me up, you can see that I'm
awake, so leave!" Sakura said.
"Are you nuts?!?!? You Are! You're crazy!" He looked at Sakura. " I'm taking this
guy down to dad …" Tori turned, looking for Li, but he couldn't see him.
All of a sudden, Kero popped out of the sock drawer.
"Would you people SHUT UP!! What's a guardian beast gotta do to get a little sleep around here?!?!?"
Tori's mouth hung open.
"WHAT IS THIS, GIVE-YOUR-OLDER-BROTHER-A-HEART-ATTACK
DAY?!?!?!?!?! What the hell is this thing?!?!?"
Sakura grabbed Kero out of the air.
"I THOUGHT I turned this thing off!" Sakura hissed through her teeth. Kero got the hint.
"Where did that thing go?!?" Tory said, talking about Li.
Sakura felt a hand brush her cheek.
"I think he went downstairs, you know, to sneak out the door?" she said, trying to
sound normal. He actually fell for it. Now that is dense. Sakura grabbed the hand on
her cheek.
"That was close," she said, trying to see him. But of course she couldn't.
He seemed to know what she wanted. He grabbed her other hand and put it to his
cheek. She realized what he was up to.
"Why don't you just make it so that I can see you?"
"Your bodyguard might come back."
"Then make yourself invisible when he does," Sakura said, the fuzzies getting
the best of her.
Li kissed her, and he was still invisible. Sakura kissed him back, very weirded out.
Kero, who was still in the room, gave the eyebrow.
"Sakura, you really need a boyfriend. I'm starting to wonder…" he trailed off.
Li finally reappeared. Kero flew up in his face.
"YOU! You're that kid who always was a jerk! I'd recognize that smell anywhere!"
Li looked at Sakura. "I really feel welcomed to this family," he said sarcastically,
"And I do not smell!" he said, glaring at Kero.
"I don't care. I still hate you." Kero said smugly.
"OH COME ON!!! I WAS TEN YEARS OLD!!! I DIDN"T KNOW YOU"D BE SO
INSULTED BY BEING CALLED A STUFFED ANIMAL!!!!"
"That doesn't change a thing," Kero said, his nose high in the air.
"Never mind that. We have more important things to do today." Sakura said.
"Like what?" Li asked her.
"Like visiting old friends…" Sakura had a sly look in her eyes.
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"Hi, Tomoyo? What are you doing today?…….. Could you meet me in the park by
the fountain? ……… Oh, well, there's someone I want you to see….. No way! You'll
just have to wait till we get there! …… Okay, see you in ten. Bye."
Sakura hung up the phone.
"This is going to be FUN. Just go invisible so we can get out of the house, then you
can go back to normal, okay?"
"Gotcha." Li used the card and disappeared.
Sakura took off, motioning for the invisible Li to follow her.
"Dad, I'm going out!" she yelled.
"Sakura? What was your brother hollering about?"
"I don't know. I think it was something about the cat eating his hemorrhoid cream?
I'm not sure." She heard Li snort, trying hard not to laugh.
And with that, they ran out the door.
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Tomoyo walked briskly to the park, eager to meet this mystery person her best
friend was apparently going crazy over. She rounded the corner and was
approaching the fountain when she saw them. Sakura and some guy, and it looked
like they were trying to eat each other's faces, that's are how into it they were!
"' Sure is a fast learner," Tomoyo muttered as she approached them, reflecting on
the fact that Sakura had never gone out with anyone.
"Uh, hi Sakura! Having fun?"
Sakura spun around, blushing madly. "Oh, uh, you could say that!"
"Uh huh. Hey, you're that guy from the party, right?" she nudged Sakura and
whispered in her ear "He looks even better in daylight!"
"Yep, that's me, the guy from the party!"
Sakura clung to his neck, "We're dating!" she said, trying not to laugh at the
puzzled look Tomoyo was giving her.
"Well, I'm going to go get us some ice cream," she said, motioning to the shop across
the street. "why don't you two stay here and, talk for a bit."
"R.r.i.i.i.g.h.t," Tomoyo said looking even more puzzled.
Sakura winked at Li devilishly. Tomoyo made some kind of noise that sounded like a cross
between a gasp and a heart attack. Sakura left. Li and Tomoyo sat down on a bench.
"WOAH!!," she said, once Sakura was out of hearing range. "You must be pret_ty good!"
"Why's that?"
"To make her break her promise to Li Syaoran. I thought she'd die single!"
"Who's that?" Li asked, playing it up.
"Well, long long ago, there was this guy who moved here from China.
To make a long story shhooort….. He promised her that he would come back some day,
and she promised that she would wait for him, if you get my meaning."
Li nodded.
"Any ways, everyone knew that he wouldn't come back, like, ever. And I don't care how
much he said that he liked her; she had to get on with life. Everyone thought so, even though
I was the only one who ever told her.
"I see. What was this guy like?" he asked trying to stop the corners of his mouth from curling up.
"WEEEELL, he was the cutest kid. I even had a crush on him at one time He was
really serious all the time, and he blushed really easy. He had GORGEOUS amber
colored eyes;. And his hair was chestnut brown -Kind of like yours -Hey didn't it
used to be black? - Anyways, Sakura really liked him a lot, and I guess it took her a
long time……….OH NO! What have I just done?!? Now you'll be thinking that you
have to be just like him or Sakura won't like you!! Just kill me now before she does!!!"
"I don't think there's much chance of that," Li said, grinning widely.
"What, you trying to be like him, or you killing me before she does?"
"Neither."
"So you really like her, huh?"
"Let's just say, I've already picked names for our children."
"This relationship sure is moving fast!" Sakura giggled from behind them. She
handed Li an ice cream cone. He REALLY blushed this time!
Tomoyo FREAKED! "How long have you been standing there!?!?! What did you hear?!?!?!"
"I heard enough to know what my next birthday present will be!" she giggled
madly. If it was possible, Li turned even a darker shade of beet red!
"We were just making small talk…uh, right?" Tomoyo said, giving Li the look.
"So, what are their names?" Sakura asked Li, still giggling.
'I can make this turn out better than we thought it would' he thought to himself, suddenly getting an idea.
"Nikki, Rita, Chelsea, and Zachary," he said, trying to look like he wasn't making it up.
"Wow, what a coincidence, those are the names of our friends!" Tomoyo exclaimed, totally clueless.
"I don't think I introduced myself did I? My name is Tomoyo."
"Nice to see you again. My name is Syaoran Li." He held out his hand for her to shake it.
"YOU ARE SO SICK!"
"It's true!" he told her.
"YEAH RIGHT! Prove it!"
"Force, know my plight." He smiled at her evilly. He pulled the lasin board out of thin air and
twirled it between his two index fingers.
Tomoyo's jaw dropped open.
"Sakura, do you have any Clow cards on you?"
"Waaahaaa?!?!?! No way!!! You're not…. You can't be!!! AAAAAAAAAAH!!!
Please excuse me while I go kick my own ass!!!!!"
By this time, Sakura was rolling on the ground, laughing_ her_guts_out! She
slowly stood up after about a minute, tears in her eyes, still laughing, and pointed at
her. "You were SO sure that you were right!! IN_ YOUR_FACE!!"
Tomoyo made a very strange noise somewhere in her nose. "I am SO sorry! I will
never doubt you again! How did you pull this off?!?!?"
"Actually, it was pretty easy! I knew that you'd be to happy to think I was finally moving
on to ask the obvious questions!"
"So, you had a crush on me at one point?" Li asked Tomoyo mischievously.
Tomoyo turned nearly purple "Only a small one!" she squeaked.
"Sakura, were my eyes really as GORGEOUS as she said they were?"
"They still are."
Li smiled. "Hey, you know, we haven't even gone on a real date yet."
Sakura searched around in her coat pocket for a minute and pulled out the concert
tickets that Tomoyo had given her. She looked at the date and time that was printed
on them.
"How about, Friday at seven o'clock?" she asked him.
"Sounds great! What are we going to see?"
"Stardust!"
"I love that band!"
Tomoyo was still standing there, a deep red tint to her usually pale face. She was in
shock of the fact that she was wrong. "Hellooooooo! I'm still he-ere!"
"Yeah, how could we forget? YOU had a crush on my man," Sakura said teasing her.
"SOOOOOOOOOO BUSTED!" Li grinned.
Tomoyo turned even a deeper shade of purple. Then she smiled. 'I'll get out of this
with a compliment' she thought.
"Well, what do you expect? You're hot!" She said. Li blushed light pink (They're
blushing an awful lot) at this. Sakura wrapped her arms around him from behind.
"Actually, you're hotter than hot, but I have to say that that was NOT the right
thing to say, if you wanted to fix what you just said," She glared at Tomoyo.
"Hey, what's that noise?" Sakura asked. She looked to the right. Nikki and Chelsea
were coming their way, giggling at some unknown joke. Sakura smiled devilishly.
"Maybe we can fit more than one freaked out person into the day," she said, looking at Li.
Tomoyo smiled "Yeah, we can find out if they had a crush on you too. Then maybe some of the
attention will be directed AWAY from me!!"
"I don't get it. First, you complain that we're not paying enough attention to you,
and then you don't want us to pay attention to you! Will you make up your mind?" Sakura said.
Tomoyo gave her the look.
"Oh no! They're closing in!" Sakura said. She ran around to the front of the bench and sat on
Li's lap. He couldn't even get a surprised look on her face before she started kissing him passionately.
'What a sex maniac!' thought Tomoyo, shaking her head. She blushed (yes, again).
Nikki and Chelsea walked up and gasped. Nikki made a cat call.
"Looks like SOMEBODY finally decided to get on with things" Chelsea said.
"Isn't that the guy from the party last night?" asked Nikki.
"Well, since Sakura is too busy to answer that, yes he is."
"They're pretty into it." Nikki said.
"Yeah,he must be pretty good to make her break her promise to Li Syaoran,"
Chelsea said. Tomoyo smiled, remembering the conversation she had just had with Li.
"Yeah, she was just talking about him yesterday," Tomoyo added.
"And remember? She compared the party to the bear she got in grade four!"
Li pulled away for a second.
"Really?" He whispered low enough for only Sakura to hear.
"Nothing could be better then that, except you," she whispered, and then pulled him back.
"You have to admit, he was cute!" Chelsea said.
"Oooooooh yeah! He was the cutest boy in the whole school." Nikki said.
"It was really too bad that he only liked Sakura. Why couldn't he play the field?
All the cute guys usually do"
"Well, he wasn't ever really normal," Tomoyo pointed out.
"That's one of the reasons I liked him so much!" Nikki exclaimed.
"Oh, really? You had a crush on Li" Tomoyo said, nudging Li the tiniest bit.
He smiled through the kiss.
"Well, I wouldn't really call it a crush. Just a couple re-occurring dreams about me marrying him…"
Nikki said. Li pulled away and snorted with laughter.
"DON'T!" All three girls said at the same time, stopping Sakura from pulling him back.
She frowned and got off his lap. Li smiled.
"Sooo, you had a crush on Li? Why was I not informed?" she said, glaring at the 2 girls in amusement.
"Oh, come on! I bet the whole school had a crush on him! Including the boys! And how could
you hear what we were saying? You two were so…deep in…business," Chelsea said. Sakura giggled.
"I didn't really listen. It was just kind of stored… in my head… until further… notice," She trailed off.
"Well he must be pretty hot stuff to make you break you promise to Li," Nikki said.
"Well, I guess you could say that…" she said quietly. They didn't really notice.Li blushed.
"So I'm Nikki…"
"And I'm Chelsea!" Chelsea finished. "I see you've found a way to warm your way into our friend's heart…"
"And mouth!" Nikki interjected. They girls all giggled.
"So what's with all the mystery? Why didn't you tell us your name?" Chelsea asked.
"You didn't ask me." Li said simply.
"Oookey, then, what's your name?" Nikki asked.
"Li Syaoran. It's nice to see you again. I'm glad everyone missed me so much…Even the boys, huh?"
he grinned evilly.
Both of the girls' eyes' went wide.
"YOU'RE JOKING!!!" They both screamed at the same time. Tomoyo giggled.
"He did the same thing to me." She said.
"No, no no, NO! You couldn't be Li…" Nikki stuttered.
"And why not?" he asked, giving her the eyebrow.
"You just couldn-"
"Let's look at the facts," he interrupted, "Sakura promised to wait for him. Suddenly,
out of the blue, she starts making out with some guy who's name you don't know, who
just happened to appear out of nowhere, in town, at her house. I look like Li,
I act like Li, apparently I smell like Li (they gave him the eyebrow, cuz obviously
they didn't know about Kero and his little talk), Sakura loves me, I AM Li."
Nikki and Chelsea both blushed even darker than Tomoyo had.
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Well, that's it for this chapter. I bet you never thought it would end, did ya?
Well, the next chapter won't be as long. I'm already working on it.
If anyone has any suggestions/ comments/ complaints, feel free to email me.
Go nuts. Well, okay, not literally, but you get the idea, right? No swearing or
anything though. And I feel that I absolutely have to mention Kyralea again.
She helped me sooooooooo (etc.) much on this.
Annie
