*~* Meanwhile Upstairs *~*

A/N: Part 8 is here!! Hope u enjoy!! R&R! Sorry for the Suspense! I hope u think it was worth it!!

Disclaimer: I dun own anybody in this fic except for Scott. He's mine! I made him!! So, dun sue me, cuz I got nothin.

Fushy-Wushy!!!

*~*Meanwhile Upstairs*~*

"So…."

"Uh, yah…"

"We really should talk about this. Truthfully, I mean."

"I know. Ok, do you want me to go first, or do you wanna go first?"

"You can go first." Syaoran said quickly.

"Chicken."

"Hey!"

"WELL, MAKING A GIRL GO FIRST ISN'T VERY MANLY OF YOU, NOW IS IT?" Sakura shouted.

"FINE! I'LL GO FIRST IF YOU'RE GONNA BE SUCH A BABY ABOUT IT!" He shouted back.

"I AM NOT BEING A BABY!"

"WHY ARE WE ARGUING!? AND SHOUTING?!"

"I DON'T KNOW!"

"SO THEN LET'S STOP!"

"FINE!"

"Ok, so I'll go first then. Sakura, I know you have a crush on me." He said bluntly.

"Well, I know that you have a crush on me too." She replied. They both blushed ever so slightly.

"Sakura, I really don't want to leave."

"And I don't want you to leave either. Hell, I don't want you to get married!"

"Sakura, what I feel for you is not a stupid crush. I really do love you. I don't care if you just like me a little more then a friend, at least you know how I feel, that's what's important."

"I don't have a crush on you either. I love you too Syaoran. Wow, it's a lot easier to say. I thought it would be a lot harder."

"I know what you mean. Ok, so now everything is on the table. What are we going to do about it?"

"What can we do? I mean, you're gonna get married and I'll just be, uh… whatever."

"Meilin and I both don't want to marry each other. I mean, everyone knows that I'm in love with you, thanks to Tomoyo and Meilin."

"I know how you feel. Believe me. Did you tell the Clan that? That you and Meilin don't want to get married I mean?"

"Well, no. Once they make up their minds, it's nearly impossible to get them to change it."

"But not completely impossible, right?"

"I don't think that they would let me not marry her just because I'm in love with the person I was suppose to compete with."

"But that's over and done with! I mean, we're not competing anymore! And, since you are the Li Clan's next leader, doesn't that mean that you can choose who you want to marry?"

"Nope."

"Well, can't you get divorced afterwards or something?"

"I don't think so. It will be witnessed by all of the Li Clan, so I'm pretty sure it's for life."

"This is just great. I finally find out that you love me and now we can't be together!" She cried.

"Who said we can't be together? I mean, we'll have to brake it off in the future since I'm gonna get married (Sakura groaned at that), sorry, it doesn't mean we can't be together now. I mean, we can date until we're 18 or 19. By then, maybe we'll be sick of each other."

"SYAORAN!"

"Hey, I was kidding! Just kidding! I'm sure I'll get tired of you before we're 19!" He joked. She punched him in the arm. He just laughed. She smiled. This was how she wanted it. She had told him how she felt, found out that he felt the same, and they were still buddies. This was perfect. More than perfect. It was indescribably perfect.

"So are you waiting for something or are you gonna ask me out?" She asked him. He gave her one of his smiles.

"MY my, aren't we forward?" He said in a teasing way.

"Look, do you realize how long I've waited for this?"

"What?"

"THIS! The moment when you ask me out!"

"Since you've waited for so long, what's another minute or two?"

"LI! DON'T MAKE ME KICK YOUR ASS!!"

"Sakura, will you…eat a cookie with me?"

"WHAT! SYAORAN! ASK ME OUT DAMMIT!!"

"You know, you're cute when you're mad."

"I'm not mad, I'm PISSED! ASK ME OUT BEFORE I KILL YOU!"

"Ok ok, geeze. Ahem Sakura, will you go out with me?" He asked her sincerely.

"Geeze, took you long enough. After all the hints Tomoyo and Meilin gave you, you think you would be quicker."

"Hey! They gave you hints too ya know! Don't go blaming this all on me!"

"Why not? I always have and always will." She said with a grin.

"Uh oh."

"What's wrong?"

"I just thought of something."

"What?"

"Your brother's gonna kill me. Then he'll stop our movie nights since you usually sleep over. He'll probably think we're doing something…uh…ahem not good."

"He will, won't he? Well, I guess you're gonna have to figure something out."
"Waitaminute! ME? What about you? You can help ya know!"

"Eh."

"Eh? That's all you gotta say. Eh."

"Eh."

"Fine. Don't go out with me then."

"Fine. Maybe I won't."

"Fine."

"Fine."

"So, what do you wanna do?"

"I dunno."

"You wanna go out?"

"Kay."

"Cool." After he had said that, a light knock rapped the door.

"Are you guys done yelling at each other? We can hear you from downstairs, well sort of. We can't make out what you're saying, but we can hear you yelling. Is everything ok?" Asked a concerned Tomoyo. A very happy Sakura came out followed by smiling Syaoran.

"Why, everything's fine Tomoyo. Why on earth would you think otherwise?" She asked her confused friend.

"Whose room were you in?" She asked all of a sudden.

"Meilin's. Why?" Syaoran asked.

"Uh, that one was bugged. Sorry. I think I caught you on tape."

"You did!? Well that's great! Can I have a copy?" Sakura asked excitedly. Syaoran just shook his head and Tomoyo just looked more confused.

"Huh? Can you please repeat that? I don' t think I heard you right. I thought I just heard you ask for a tape of mine." Said Tomoyo.

"She did. And I wouldn't mind a copy myself." Syaoran stated. Tomoyo looked like she was going to faint. "Tomoyo, maybe you should sit down. You look a little funny."

"Can we watch the tape right now?!" Tomoyo asked excitedly. Sakura looked at Syaoran and he just shrugged with one of his grins.

"Sure, I guess."

"Great! C'mon! I'll set everything up! You go tell everyone that we're gonna watch 'Sakura and Syaoran's First I-Love-You-Tape! This will be so KAWAII!!" Squealed Tomoyo. She looked like she would burst with happiness.

"Ok. We'll do that." Syaoran replied. The two of them went downstairs. Everybody looked up when they saw the two Card Captors.

"What's up?" Scott asked.

"We're gonna watch… what was it called again?" Sakura asked Syaoran.

"I believe it was called 'Sakura and Syaoran's First I-Love-You-Tape'. Yes. So, if anyone else wants to watch it with us, then you can. Oh and Meilin, your room's bugged."

"She promised that she wouldn't tape you guys-HEY! WAITAMINUTE! MY ROOM'S BUGGED?! WHAT THE HELL! TOMOYO!! GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE!" Meilin screeched. Tomoyo bounded down the stairs, looking very happy.

"Yes Meilin-Chan?"

"You BUGGED my room?!"

"Uh…hehehe…Well…It WAS intended for Sakura or Syaoran, but then I figured that they would check their rooms so uh…you were my next victim. Hehehe." Tomoyo explained to her angry friend.

"Wait, you guys wanna watch the tape that Tomoyo has of you?" Scott asked. The two nodded. Everyone except Tomoyo looked shocked and confused. Syaoran sat on the couch. He then pulled Sakura onto his lap and she giggled. Everybody was staring at them. Tomoyo put in the tape and the two girls watched with eagerness while the guys just shrugged and watched. The two on the couch were feeling a little nervous since their feelings were on tape and the people they were closest to were watching. When the tape ended, Meilin and Tomoyo turned to face them, their faces aglow with happiness written all over them. Eriol and Scott were trying to keep in a snicker. No one said anything.

"What?" Syaoran asked.

"It was just so…so…KAWAII!!!!" Tomoyo squealed in delight. Meilin nodded her head vigorously in agreement.

"So that's what you guys were screamin' about upstairs." Scott said.

"Yup. Wait, no. We weren't screaming, just yelling." Syaoran corrected.

"Same diff."

"No. Screaming is what you did when you saw us with the cards. Yelling is what cheerleaders do." Syaoran explained.

"Ok, first of all, I did not scream. Second, does it really matter what the difference is between yelling and screaming is?" Scott replied.

"Uh, you screamed like a little girl. And, yah it does matter. You're trying to say something that is false." Sakura stated.

"I did NOT scream like a little girl. And so what if I said something that was a little off."

"Yah, you did. You screamed like a little girl. Wait. No, you're right. You didn't scream, you shrieked. You shrieked like a little girl. And ok, you're right on the second part." Sakura said.

"I didn't shriek. I was caught off guard." Scott said, trying to defend himself. Meanwhile, Eriol, Tomoyo and Meilin were having a good time just watching the three bicker back and forth.

"You shrieked like a little girl. And I saw the look on your face. That wasn't being caught off guard. That was fear. You were scared. That's why you shrieked like a little girl." Syaoran said. He wasn't going to let Sakura have all the fun.

"I did not shriek like a little girl! And if I did shriek at all, I did it like a man." Scott stated.

"He shrieked like a little girl." Syaoran told the others who were all grinning like fools.

"I DID NOT!!" Scott was getting irritated now. Sakura and Syaoran just smiled. They loved making him mad. It was one of their favorite past times. Of course, they didn't get to do it that often since he was the one making them mad. So, when they did make him mad, they went all out. This continued for about 20 minutes. Then when Tomoyo was starting to feel a little sorry for Scott, she decided to stop it.

"So, now that we all...uh…are a couple, what do you guys wanna do?" She asked.

"You make it sound like we're all going out with each other." Meilin told her.

"Ok, let me re-phrase that. Now that we all are dating…Wait, no, that doesn't sound right either. Let me start again. Now that each individual of our group is dating another individual of our group…wait, does that make sense?" Tomoyo was making herself, along with the others, confused.

"Now that Li and Sakura are together and that our group now has official couples, what do you wanna do?" Eriol said.

"Why is his name always first?" Sakura asked.

"What?" Was Meilin's response.

"Does everyone say 'Li and Sakura', or do some people say 'Sakura and Li'?" Sakura asked the group.

"Does it really matter?" Syaoran asked her. She nodded. "Why?"

"Because then it would be unfair. I mean, if half the people we know referred to us as Sakura and Li and the other half referred to us as Li and Sakura it would be ok. But if everyone we knew just referred to us as Li and Sakura that would be unfair." She explained.

"Are you saying that it would be ok if the people we knew referred to us as Sakura and Li all the time? Are you being sexist now?" He teased.

"Noooo. I'm being sexy. There is a difference. I thought you would notice it by now." She teased back. They were starting to forget that the others were there, even though that Meilin and Tomoyo were having a quiet debate on whether Tomoyo should tape them or not.

"Oh, you call that being sexy?" He said jokingly.

"Ok then, Mr. Hot-Shot, what would you call being sexy?" She asked. He leaned toward her and whispered something in her ear. She blushed and let out a little gasp of shock and punched him in the arm.

"What?! You asked!" He said.

"That's not what I had in mind!" She said as she flung a pillow from the couch at him. The others concluded that he had said something along the lines of being inappropriate. The pillow fwhapped him in the face.

"Don't start that with me Kinomoto!" He warned. She put on a mischievous look.

"Oh, what're you gonna do about it?" She asked with attitude as she fwhapped him again with a pillow.

"That's it, you asked for it!" He declared and took the pillow that had hit him in the face and started hitting her mercilessly with it. She squealed in shock. Then she took her pillow and fought back. The others meanwhile were laughing their heads off. Sakura and Syaoran noticed this after a few minutes, looked at each other, nodded, and took after their friends. Syaoran hit Scott right on the head then attacked Eriol while Sakura hit Tomoyo in the arm (not the one holding the camera, but her free arm) and then hit Meilin on the leg.

"That's it! This means WAR!!!" Scott announced as he got a pillow and went after Syaoran. The others soon took after his example (for once). Tomoyo had carefully placed her camera in a safe place, high on a shelf where it was out of reach. Then she went after Meilin. After about half an hour of whacking each other with pillows, they all started to get tired. They all fell down in a laughing/giggling heap. Once they had all caught their breath after about five minutes, they just looked at each other.

"So, now what do you wanna do?" Tomoyo asked.

"Seven Minutes In Heaven!!" Scott suggested. Everyone (Not including Scott) threw their pillows at him.

"So, I'll take that as a maybe." He replied underneath a pile of pillows. They all shook their heads. They had agreed to watch a couple of movies that their hostess had rented. One was a horror flick, another was cheezy, one was a comedy and the last one they watched was a chick-flick. During the last movie, while Sakura and Syaoran were snuggling all kawaii like, Tomoyo and Meilin did some scheming. After the movie was over, everybody got up and stretched. Meilin and Tomoyo pushed the two lovebirds in a closet and locked it.

"Come on guys!! This isn't funny!!" Sakura said through the closed doors. (The closet was HUGE, ya know, being in Tomoyo's house and all).

"Can I ask you why you did this? I mean, we already admitted our feelings for each other, you saw that on tape, so what's with the closet?" Syaoran asked.

"This is for the Pillow Fight!" Meilin told them.

"Let us out!! Come on!! Unlock the doors!!" Sakura yelled through the doors while pounding on them. No one paid any attention to them, and instead, went into the kitchen. The two of them kept yelling at their friends (yelling, not screaming, yelling) to let them out and pounding on the doors. No one heard the door open and saw a certain big brother walk in.

"Sakura?" Touya asked as he walked into the entrance. He heard yelling coming from near the living room and decided to investigate.

"You guys, we're getting tired! My mouth really hurts!" Sakura whined.

"Yah, and my arms are getting tired too!" Syaoran complained. Of course, Touya heard all of this.

"Sakura! Is that you!? Did I just hear the Gaki's voice?" Touya sounded furious. Sakura was about to say something, but Syaoran put his hands over her mouth. Touya unlocked the closet and when the door opened, Syaoran lowered his hands a little. When Touya looked in, he looked more than furious, he looked like he would kill. Sakura didn't think that her being in a closet would set him off like this, but then saw the reason. So did Syaoran. When he lowered his hands, they lowered about chest high, and it did not look good.

"WHAT IN THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING TO MY SISTER!!!???" Said a furious Touya, eyes full of rage and face all red, hands ready to choke the poor Card Captor. Syaoran's face fell and lost all colour.

"NO!! IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK!! HONEST!!" Syaoran said desperately. Touya just lunged at him. Sakura pushed him out of the way and he took that chance to run far, far away. Tomoyo and the others heard the commotion and decided to see what it was all about. All they saw, or rather didn't see, was a blur that could only be Syaoran, run past them at top speed to get away from an over-protective brother's wrath. A few seconds later they saw Touya running after him. Then a worried Sakura, chasing the two of them. She cast an evil glance at the four of them. They also were now involved in the chase.

"That wasn't a funny joke! Touya's gonna kill Li! Thanks a lot you guys." She said mean-ly.

"What is he doing here?" Meilin asked, sounding concerned as everybody started running toward the direction they had seen Touya go in.

"Oh, like you guys don't know." Sakura snapped.

"We don't."

"You mean, you guys didn't call him?"

"No. We know better than to call Touya when you're with Li." Scott said.

"What the hell's going on!!" Sakura cried in frustration. They were now in the back yard beside the pool. Touya was about to catch Syaoran when Sakura shouted

"Touya! What are you doing here?" Touya looked confused.

"You called and said you forgot to bring your stuffed animal and asked if I could deliver it to you." Touya said.

'Kero, you little…Wait 'til I get my hands on you!' a furious Sakura thought. Everyone could tell that's what Syaoran was thinking too, by the look on his face.

"Well, thanks for bringing him. You can leave now." Sakura said angrily.

"I still have something to deal with." Touya growled.

"No, you are going to leave now. I said NOW Touya!" Sakura said with finality. Touya was debating on whether to go after the "Kid" or do as his little sister asked. His calmer side got the better of him, thrust a bag that he was clutching at her and left. As he was walking home, he suddenly realized that everyone was in their pajamas. He shook his head. He needed to calm down. He decided to call Yukito when he got home. When Sakura opened the bag that her brother threw at her, a dizzy looking Kero flew out. When he no longer felt sick, he gave a

"Ta da! Your favorite Guardian Beast of the Seal is here!" He cried. Sakura grabbed him and started choking him!

"DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU DID!! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TROUBLE YOU CAUSED!!!" She yelled, shouted, screamed at him. Tomoyo and Meilin had to pry her away from him. Kero hid behind Scott.

"Whoa!! What did I do?" Kero asked, very confused. He was sure Sakura would be glad to see him, and not go spaz out on him and try to kill him. Syaoran went over to Sakura and tried to calm her down. She was beyond furious. He just whispered stuff in her ears and gently held her hands in his and she finally managed to calm down.

"What did I do?" He asked again.

"Why didn't you just call and ask if you could come?!" Sakura snapped.

"Sakura, he didn't know. It's not his fault. It turned out ok in the end, didn't it? We're all ok, right?" Syaoran said gently. Kero stared at him in disbelief. He was actually standing up for Kero. No one could believe it.

"I guess so. It would've been better if he had just stayed at home though!" She said.

"He just missed you, that's all. I mean, who wouldn't?" Syaoran replied. Sakura just smiled at him. He always knew what to say to make her feel better.

"I'm sorry I blew up at you Kero. But you should've just called and asked if you could've come over. I would've picked you up." Sakura apologized. Kero was still in disbelief. He didn't like how the 'Kid' was being so chummy with Sakura. Plus, he couldn't understand why Syaoran had stood up for him.

"Uh, guys, what's going on?" Kero asked.

"Oh, Sakura and Li are going out now!" Tomoyo said happily. Kero fainted.

"See what you did? You can't go around giving news out like that, especially to people…er…uh… things that don't like Li. You have to be careful with what you say. Say, guys, how are you gonna tell Touya that you guys are going out?" Meilin said.

"Uh…hehehehehe…we haven't really figured that part out yet. Notice how I said WE Sakura?" Syaoran said. Sakura just shrugged. With that, Syaoran picked her up and threw her in the pool. Everybody was stunned. Syaoran was looking at her with a satisfied smirk on his lips. Little did he know Scott and Eriol were about to push him in. When he did sense it, it was already too late and before he knew it, he was in the water with a giggling Sakura. Then, with a splash, the two boys were in the pool as well leaving a laughing Meilin and Tomoyo. Sakura reached up her hands to her friends and when they each took a hand to lift her out, she gave a hard pull and they both fell in. So now, everybody except Kero was in the pool, all laughing. Soon, they had a water fight, splashing each other, showing no mercy. When they decided to get out, they were all dripping. Fortunately, no one was wearing anything see threw, unless you include Scott's 'wife beater'. So the six of them went into the house, and Tomoyo gave them some clothes that she had made a few days before. She even had guy outfits. Tomoyo had made the outfits when she found out that everybody could come so her guests could wear them at her party. The costumes were quite formal. Syaoran had dark green dress pants with a black silk shirt. Eriol had dark blue dress pants with a white silk shirt and Scott had black dress pants with deep red silk shirt. Sakura had a long, light pink, slinky dress (with slits that went up to her knees) on that fit her perfectly. Meilin had a light red mid-thigh dress on that also looked like it was made for her (which it was). Tomoyo had a violet flowing gown that went to her ankles. Both the guys and girls looked like they were stars ready to go to some award show they looked so good. Tomoyo insisted on taking a couple of pictures for her photo album. Syaoran stood behind Sakura and wrapped his arms around her waist, while her arms over-lapped his and both their cheeks touching. Eriol stood beside Tomoyo with his arm also around her waist. Scott stood behind Meilin, his hands on her hips, holding her closely. After about ten pictures (Tomoyo wanted a few of just the girls, then the guys, then just the couples) Tomoyo decided it was time to got to bed since it was close to one o'clock in the morning. There were a few complains, but once Tomoyo gave them one of her "looks", everybody got up and went to their respected rooms. All the rooms had a door adjoining specific rooms to each other, but not all the rooms were connected together. (Li's room was at the beginning of the hall, and it was connected to Sakura's. Sakura's room was beside Meilin's room, but their rooms were not connected, instead, Meilin's room was connected to Scott's. Scott's room was beside Eriol's, but their rooms were not connected either. Eriol's room was connected to Tomoyo's room and Tomoyo's room was at the end of the hall.) So, when everybody's clothes had dried, they changed and went to bed. They did not necessarily go to sleep though…

A/N: The next Chapter will be a fun one!! Thanks to one of my best buds SK Marie for the idea!! U are the Greatest Darling! Even though you think to highly of yourself at times, egotistical if u will, can be snobbish, a little annoying, stupid uh…er…but u stil r one of my best friends and I luv ya!! ^.~