Chapter 7


It's that time again! I've written another chapter!
Betcha didn't think I'd write anymore, huh, huh, didya, didya??
Well, here it is, in all its splendor. (Yeah right!)
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These characters don't belong to me, they belong to Clamp. By the way, Kris is mine.
THEY CAN'T TAKE HIM AWAY FROM ME!!!
MINE! NOT CLAMP'S!!! COPYRIGHT!! MAY NOT BE USED IN ANY WAY
SHAPE OR FORM WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF ME!!!! KNOW WHY?
'CUZ HE'S MINE!!!!
Sakura: ALL RIGHT!!!! We get it!
Me: Sorry. It's true though. Stardust is mine too.

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That week Li enrolled in the local high school. It was Monday morning. Li walked into
the classroom and scanned over the room. He finally spotted Sakura, and all of the
others (plus Zachary and Rita), sitting in a group on the far side of the room.
Mr. Terada (My fanfic, so I say he's a high school teacher now) approached him.

"Nice to have you back, Syaoran Li. You can sit beside Zachary if you like."

Li nodded. He approached their little group and winked at Sakura. She winked back. None of the others
noticed, because they were all listening to Zachary tell them how he got his black eye.

"Well, I was walking downtown in the middle of the night, when this guy jumped out of the alley and
ripped off some old lady's purse. Being the heroic guy that I am (the girls all laughed at this), I ran
him down and beat him up. Of course, I let him take the first swing, seeing as I was obviously more
skilled than him before I totally kicked his ass (more giggles), and somehow, his fist connected with my head."

"Yeah right!" Li said, "You probably just ran into the bathroom door again." He pulled out the chair of the desk beside Zachary.

"I'm sorry, I guess nobody told you. I have a split personality. My other half- Thomas- sits there.
You'd better move. He might get mad," Zachary said.
Li snorted " Uh, huh" he looked skeptical "Nice try Zachary. Do you girls actually hang around with this guy?"
"I guess the secret's out," Sakura said.
"So, when should I pick you up for our date on Friday? Is six okay? I wanted to take you out for dinner first."
The whole room went silent. Zachary and Rita tried not to laugh.
Now it was Zachary's turn to snort.
"You? Yeah right! News for you- the only person she'll go out with lives in China."
"Not anymore." Li grinned.
Zachary gave him the eyebrow.
Li pointed to himself "Hellloooo! It' me, Li."
Zachary burst out laughing, "Man, that's even better than I could come up with!"
Li sweat dropped "You sure you don't want to introduce me to the blackboards, Mr. Class president?"
"How did you know I was going to say that?!"
"Because you said it to me in grade four!! How else would I know your name, and that you make up stories all the time?!?
Zachary stopped laughing. "Jeeze, you really are serious… Wow… How've you been?"
"Okay… Now can I sit down, or will- er- Thomas kick my ass?
"I think I can hold him off."
"You can be such an idiot sometimes, Zachary," Tomoyo said.
"Excuse me? I don't recall me or Thomas asking for your opinion," he shot back. She stuck her tongue out at him.
"This is so ROMANTIC!!" Rita exclaimed, "Finally together again!" They all rolled their eyes.
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"Thanks for walking me home..."Sakura started. It was after school that day.
Li smiled, and touched her cheek. Sakura closed her eyes slowly. He leaned towards her, and kissed her softly.
Sakura wrapped her arms around his neck, and pressed her lips against his. She pushed him into the door. She
pulled away, breathing heavily, and kissed him again. Li pulled away.

"Sakura...."He started. Sakura started to drop kisses all over his face and neck. Li felt like he would pass out.
"Sakura...stop." He whispered. Sakura put a hand behind his head, and gazed at him devilishly.
"Do you want to come in... Real quick?" She asked. Li knew he shouldn't, and he knew if he did,
it would NOT be quick. He took a shaky breath.
"Uh..." he ended in a squeak, with a weird expression on his face.

The door opened. Li was about to fall, and Sakura lifted him up. He turned around to look straight at............
Sakura's brother!

"WHATDOYOUTHINKYOURDOING?!?!?!?!?!?" He shrieked. Li's eyes widened. Tori ran out and grabbed him by the neck.

"TORI!!!!! STOP!!!!" Sakura screamed. She ran over to Li, obviously over the fuzzie attack.

"What is going on out here?" Sakura's dad demanded.
Sakura grabbed Li out of Tori's grasp.

"Are you ok?"

"I'm fine. Uh..."Li frowned. Sakura wrapped her arms around him.

"I'm so sorry, Li!" She said.

"It's ok. It's not your fault," he said anxiously.

"Who are you?" asked Sakura's dad.

"He's my boyfriend! And Tori was about to kill him!" Sakura said.

"Tori!" Sakura's dad turned to him.

"I was not! I…I...just...uh…lost...my temper…and..."

"Tori! Just because I love someone, and he loves me back, is no reason to be homicidal! You should be happy!"

"You should leave your sister alone-"He was cut off. "OH NO! My cookies!" He ran off to the kitchen.

Tori narrowed his eyes at Li. "I think he should leave my sister alone," he replied to their father,
who was already gone.

Li looked at Tory as if he were looking at Satin himself. It took all his strength to keep from running away.
He didn't want to look like a loser in front of Sakura.

"Why don't you just go home?! You don't even live here anymore anyways!!!!" she said spitefully and
gave Tory the death glare.

"I don't think you should go out with him…" Tory began.

"I don't think you should be dating my eighth grade science teacher, but do I say anything about that?!?!?!?
Keep your nose out of my business!!!!!!!" (If looks could kill!)

"I'm going out!" Tory yelled, then slammed the door behind him. He gave Li a dirty look as he stormed by.

"Lets go upstairs Li. We don't want you in the path of HOMICIDAL MANIACS!!!!" Sakura yelled, loud
enough for Tory to hear. Sakura ran upstairs to her room, dragging Li along with her. They had just gotten
to the top of the stairs when she ran into…

"DAD!" she shrieked in surprise.
"Sakura, NO."
"Why, whatever are you talking about daddykins?" she forced an innocent smile.
"You know. Let him go. Then we need to have a talk."
Sakura frowned, and dragged Li back down the stairs. She threw open the front door.
"Bye," she said, and slammed the door in Li's face.
"Uh, bye," Li said from the other side of the door.

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Sakura stormed into the kitchen where her father was waiting.
"Sit," he said. Sakura reached for one of the slightly burnt chocolate chip cookies that were cooling. Aiden stared at her.
"What?!" she asked after a minute of trying to ignore him, as if she didn't already know.
"I think…" he began slowly, "that I've waited too long to have this talk with you."
"Huh?"
Then he started.
"Well…er, uh, when… When a man, and a woman love each other, and are, um, married… hopefully…"
"DAD!!!!!!!!" Sakura yelled, interrupting him. She looked at him like he had just shot her, "They taught us this in school!!!"
"Still, I think I have to…"
Sakura plugged her ears with her fingers and began chanting, "I can't hear you, I can't hear you!!" very much like a six-year-old.
"SAKURA!!! Stop it! Forget it! Just listen to me!" He sweat dropped.
Sakura gave up and unplugged her ears.
"Now," He began again. " Just listen. I knew the time would come when this would happen."
She rolled her eyes.
"I'm sure he's a nice boy, or you wouldn't be standing in the middle of the street kissing him (Sakura blushed),
But if you're going to be doing these things, you need to have proper protection."
"DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP!!!! WE_DIDN'T_DO_ANYTHING!!!!!!! FOR THE LOVE OF BUDDHA, STOP!!!"
"You may not have done it yet, but when…"
"S_T_O_P!!!!!! We're not going to do it!!! Atleastnotforalongtime," she added the last part on quickly and quietly.
Aiden sighed. "Fine. But just so you know…"
"Believe me, I_KNOW!!!!"

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The rest of the week went by faster than any other time in Sakura's life. Finally it was Friday. The
night of the STARDUST concert. It was the biggest concert since The Beetles had come 30 years
before, and everybody who's anybody, and even the nobodies were supposedly going to this concert.
Sakura had a definite spring to her step as she and Tomoyo walked home.
"Your first date with Prince Charming! How do you feel?" Tomoyo giggled.
"VERY nervous!"
"How could you be nervous around him? You haven't been away from him for more than 10 minutes all week!"
"You'd be surprised. I have a feeling that something exciting's going to happen tonight."
"Sakura, you have a dirty mind!" Tomoyo teased. An invisible Li smiled to himself.
The girls stopped at the corner to wait for the light to change.
"I don't see why we don't just cross. There aren't any cars coming," Tomoyo said.
Sakura started making bizarre sucking noises.
"Uhhhhhh, what are you doing, other than totally freaking me out?!?"
Sakura stopped. "You shouldn't spy on us, Li."
Li appeared with his arms around her. Tomoyo stood, her mouth wide open.
"You two are just full of surprises, aren't you?!"
Sakura giggled. Li blushed. Tomoyo just shook her head.
"So, are you excited?" Li asked Sakura. She smiled and nodded. "Pick you up at 6:00,right?"
"Right."
"You going?" he asked Tomoyo.
"Uh, YEAH! It's only the coolest event ever in the history of history!"
"Maybe we'll see you there! Who are you going with?"
She groaned. "The son of one of my mom's biggest clients, who is most likely butt-ugly. It's not fair!
She just sprung it on me last night! I was going to ask someone, but now I have to go with him.
She said something about the whole business going under if I don't. If it's so important, maybe she should take him!"
"You could have stopped after the first sentence, you know." Li said. She gave him the look.
Li decided it was a good time to disappear again.
He did, and before he left them he said one more thing,
"Sakura, if you could, please wait outside your house. I don't really want to talk to your
brother again for, say, eighty years, and if I park outside and honk, he'll probably rip my through out or something."
"Sure. I don't mind. See you at six!" Then they went their separate ways.

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It was 5 to 6. Sakura took one last glance at herself in the mirror, and tried to flatten a piece of hair
that kept sticking up in the middle of her head. She could hear Tory arguing to her father (it was more of a one sided dispute)
about the percentage of teenaged girls who get date raped by jerks like Li, and why couldn't he make her go out with
someone better, like that Kris kid? Sakura groaned. It was obvious that Aiden was perfectly fine with her going out with Li,
so why couldn't Tory get over it?

"Hey Tory?!" she yelled just before she walked out the door.

"What?!?!"

"Did you rape the first girl you went out with?!"

"No!!!!!"

"Then I guess all the jerks don't do it!" She slammed the door behind her, a wide smile
spreading over her face. She was beginning to think up much better comebacks for Tory than ever before.
Just then Li pulled up in the driveway in a silver convertible.

He grinned at Sakura, obviously pleased with her choice to wear pleather pants. Tory came out of the house
to yell at Li, no doubt, but stopped dead when he saw the car.
"Not good enough for me, huh? What was that you said? I should be dating someone classier? I bet Kris doesn't
have a car as cool as that." she mocked Tory, an amused expression on her face. All he did was turn right back
around and return to the house.

Sakura ran to the car and jumped in, not even bothering to use the door. She kissed Li quickly on the lips. He just kept grinning.
"Wow, what's wrong with your face?" she asked.
"Well," Li said, still grinning, "I never thought this would happen, and now that it's happening,
I'm having a hard time controlling things. My face would be one of them."
"What would the other be?" Sakura asked innocently. Li blushed intensely.
"Never mind!" he replied quickly. Sakura giggled.
"Can I drive it later? Where did you get it? Is it a Porsche?" she asked him in one breath.
"Yes, rented it, and yes again." He answered.
"Where are we going for supper?" Sakura inquired.
"You'll just have to wait and find out."
He backed the car out of the driveway and the car tore down the street at a speed Sakura wasn't exactly sure was legal.

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They arrived at the restaurant, "Le Poulet Fou", in about 5 minutes flat. Sakura discovered that there was
no point to sticking that hair down, because now it was standing up in all directions anyways.
They got a table for two, and browsed through the menu for a while. They finally ordered, and were
still waiting to eat twenty minutes later. Li was talking to Sakura, but then his eyes went wide and he suddenly let out a little yelp.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"Ummmm," he quickly looked down at his watch, "It's getting late. We'd better get going."
"But we still have half an hour until the concert starts!"
"I want to get there early."
"But why?"
"Because I just remembered that last time I ate here I got food poisoning."
"Okay." Sakura didn't believe him. It sounded like he was making it up on the spot, plus the fact that
he hadn't lived there for 5 years, and the restaurant was only built 3 years ago.
He practically ran out of the restaurant dragging Sakura behind him, and they still hadn't had anything to eat.
"Don't worry about it. We can get something at the concert." Was all he said when she protested.

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The music was so loud, you could probably hear it for a mile in every direction. The bass was shaking the floor.
People all around them were screaming the names of their favorite band members. Innumerable Glo- Sticks
shone like stars in the multitude of people, and still more held lighters above their heads as they swayed to the beat.
The tune floated over the sea of people. They got caught up as the whole stadium started doing the wave.
Sakura felt a hand on her shoulder, and spun around. It was Tomoyo.

"HI!"she yelled.

"WHAT!?!" Sakura asked.

"HI!!"

"I CAN'T HERE YOU!"

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?!"

Tomoyo just shook her head as if to say 'never mind.' She pointed to her date. She was right. He was pretty ugly.
He had a snubbed nose and was wearing plastic rimmed glasses, with something that mysteriously looked like
tape stuck between the two lenses. Tomoyo scrunched up her nose. Then Sakura caught sight of the orange
and yellow tartan suit he was wearing. Her jaw dropped. Now that was the ugliest article of clothing she had ever seen.
She shrugged, then returned to Li, who was a god compared to the other guy. She had just begun dancing again, when
Li seized her arm, his grip unnecessarily tight. He leaned over to her and said into her ear "Come on. Let's go outside."
Sakura could barely get a surprised look on her face before she was running to keep up with him.
They got to the lobby, and he stopped.

"Li, what was that about?" She asked him.

"I have to tell you something. There-"

"OH Syaora-an! There you are!! A dark haired girl burst through the doors at that exact moment.

"Who is this?!?" Asked Sakura, shocked. Could it be that he had another girlfriend he was cheating on her with?

"You're as stupid as ever I see," said the girl. She was a genuine slutt, with lace up white boots that went up to her
knees, a red miniskirt, and a tube top.

"What is your problem with me?!?" Sakura cried.

"You mean you don't recognize me?! Ha!"

"Should I?" Sakura asked, glancing at Li, who was giving this girl his death glare that he specialized in.
The girl-thing pushed past her and went to Li.

"Li, darling, what are you doing here? Remember our wedding? Your mother is hysterical!
Why did you run away like that? All your sisters were crying their eyes out!"

"SHUT UP!!! I_AM_NOT_MARRYING_YOU!!! Do you think that I would have ran a thousand
miles away if I loved you?!? LEAVE_ME_ALONE!!!"

"It's too late to get cold feet now, hon., Everything's ready, and as soon as I get you back, we're getting married,
and we're going to have at least 7 babies, and we ARE going to live happily ever after, whether you like it or not!"

"Hello!!!!! You're forgetting someone!!" Sakura was getting the whole picture. Nobody on earth was as crazed
about marrying Li than his cousin, Melin Rae, and she was CRAZED!

Just at that exact moment, Tomoyo and her dorky escort came into the lobby.

"Oh, right. How could I ever forget you?" Melin said slyly. "You've been coming between us from the start."
She glared at Sakura with pure loathing in her hellishly- hued eyes.

"Don't tell me. Is this Melin?" Tomoyo had guessed it too. "I didn't know the circus was in town."

"Yes, this is Melin!" Melin replied in a contemptuous voice. "And this must be the spoiled rich brat! Nice date!" She laughed in
a sinister way. Tomoyo's date started to cry. Yes, CRY!

"Melin, that's enough!" Li stepped in. "You don't belong here. Nobody wants you here. Leave. I am not coming with you.
You are a self-absorbed bitch with no class, and I am not marrying that, not now, not in ten years, not ever!"
Melin's jaw fell to the side.
"This is all your fault!" She turned slowly to glare at Sakura, then lunged, and was just about to plow her claw-like fingernails
into her flesh when a hand grabbed her by the back of her "shirt".

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" a deep voice boomed. Sakura took her hands away from her eyes to see the security guard sit
Melin back on the ground.

"What's the problem here?!" he asked, still holding her back.

"This whore is having an affair with my husband!" Melin screamed. Li sweat dropped.

"Is this true?" He turned to Li.

"NO! I am not her husband! And I never will be! This is my cousin, and I think she forgot to take her medication!!"

"I thought I threw you out of here an hour ago," the security guard eyed Melin suspiciously.

"That must have been someone else," Melin lied deficiently.

"I don't think so. Come with me, miss."
Melin protested, and even fought back for a second, until the security guard spun her around and put handcuffs on her.
As he was leading her away, she was still carrying on about how Li was hers, and how dare Sakura take him away from
her, blah, blah, blah, until finally they were too far away to hear over the music.

Li turned to Sakura with regret in his eyes.

"Umm, come on Hubert. Let's go…away." Tomoyo lead him away, so Sakura and Li could be alone.

"Sakura, I-"

"What was she talking about!? Wedding?! You ran away!?! We need to talk!"

She dragged him out into the parking lot so the people in the lobby would stop staring at them like they were crazy.

"Talk!" She commanded. Li looked embarrassed.

"Well, I don't know where to start."

"Start at the beginning. Don't leave anything out."

"Okay," he started slowly. "As you know, Melin wants to marry me." Sakura nodded. "After I left to go back home, our
parents told me that I was betrothed to her. What followed was 5 years of, (Says in whiny voice) "Li, what color of icing
should we get on the cake," and, "Li, why won't you wear a purple tux?! It's supposed to be the happiest day of my -er- our lives!"
Then came this year. She decided she wanted to get married, and the little hoe gets everything she wants, and we were
supposed to get married last month. So I ran away. There was no way that I was going to be forced into a loveless marriage
for the rest of my life, at the age of sixteen for that matter."

"So you came to me because you thought it was better than being stuck with Melin. She was at the resturant, wasn't she?"
Sakura turned away from him.

"I love you Sakura, I always will. I couldn't marry Melin, and I wouldn't anyways, even if you weren't here, for the
reason that wherever you are, my heart will be with you, and Melin could never stop me from getting back to you. She tried
very hard, but never succeeded. Forgive me?"

Sakura threw her arms around the love of her life. "I forgive you. It's not your fault you're so lovable. How did you get here
without anyone finding out?"

"Well, the conceal card came in handy."

"So it is useful for things other than stalking me."

Li smiled, and they kissed, but that abruptly stopped when they heard the scrape of forthcoming footsteps across the pavement.

Kris came staggering around the corner and approached them, a grin plastered on his face. He came right up to Sakura's face
and squinted at her, trying to get her into focus.

"Sakura?! 'Sat you?" he breathed. Sakura winced, as the stench of cheap beer filled her nostrils.

"Oh, nasty! You've been drinking! Don't you know that that's illegal?"

Kris giggled. "Who gives a damn?! Come on. Letz go…get…a ~*hiccup*~ drink!!"

"Okay, back_right_ off!" Li pushed him away lightly.

Kris was just realizing Li was there for the first time. He squinted at him too. "Hey, you're that guy…from that…place.
What'r you doin' with my girlfriend?!" Kris had been out of school sick for the past week, and hadn't heard of them going out yet.

"What are you talking about? I never went out with you!" Sakura yelled.

"WHAT'S THIS GUY BEEN MESSIN' WITH YOUR HEAD WITH?!!! YOU'RE MINE! BRING IT ON, PALFRIEND!!"
Li had a split second before he was punched in the head. You'd think someone that drunk wouldn't have as good aim, but
somehow he did. They fought it out for a while, before Li started to get tired, but for some reason, Kris didn't tire at all. Kris
swung at him with both his hands locked together, in what looked like a hammer, a move that would likely cause unconsciousness,
but Li ducked just before he hit. He heard the smash of an impact, but felt no pain. He knew the reason when he saw Sakura
fall to the ground with a moan, her eyes rolling back in her head. Kris had gone over his head and hit Sakura instead, who
was standing behind Li. Her neck was bleeding considerably, and Li twisted around just in time to see Kris drop the long
shard of glass from a broken bottle, which he had in his hand. He looked at the ground where she lay.

"Look what you made me do!" He lunged at Li one more time, but Li was quick on the uptake. With anger coursing through
him, he dropkicked Kris in the face. Kris finally fell in defeat. Satisfied that Kris wouldn't be coming after him, he ran to Sakura's side.

"Sakura? Are you okay? Can you hear me?"

No reply.

He felt for her pulse. It was still there. Li breathed a sigh of relief, and examined the cut on her neck. It didn't look too deep,
though it was definitely bleeding a lot. He ripped a long piece of cloth off of the bottom of his shirt and pressed it to her neck to
stop the flow. She'd probably be okay. He took her up in his arms and carried her to the car, where he sat her gently in the seat
and secured her seatbelt. Her head flopped to one side. It looked very uncomfortable, but it was all he could do for now.
He ran to the other side of the car and threw himself into the driver's seat. He didn't even wait for the car to warm up before
tearing off into the night…….

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Oh no! I've created a monster! (Now I'm ashamed to say I made Kris up!). What will happen next?
You'll have to wait and see. I'm fresh outta ideas. Well, almost. Thanks for all the feedback everyone!
Oh, F.Y.I - I'm pretty sure there's no way in hell that this is going to turn into a lemon.