Room 256 Across From 257
Chapter Three
~Selene Serenity~
Disclaimer: I don't own Cardcaptor Sakura. It is property of Clamp. This story line on the other hand belongs to me, so please ask me before putting on your site. Princess Mononoke does not belong to me either and my reasoning for saying this will appear later in the chapter.
Author's notes: Hello everyone. I'm back with a new installment of my CCS fanfic. I hope you are enjoying it! In this chapter Sakura decides to play matchmaker and a new roommate comes to apartment 256. Please R+R!
~Chapter Three~
It was a rainy Saturday and Sakura, Meling, Tomoyo, Yue, Syaoran, and Eriol all stayed inside their own apartments. The six seldom talked to each other and if they did all they were doing was fighting. (Well the girls talked to each other and the guys talked to each other. You know what I mean ^_^)
Down the street from their apartment building, a young woman walked down the sidewalk, getting soaked. She spotted a phone booth and lid in. She opened the phone book and skimmed through it she stopped at a name and started to dial the number. She suddenly saw another name and froze. She hung up the phone and ripped out the page. She took a good look at it and shoved in her pocket and stepped out of the phone booth. She continued to walk down the sidewalk.
***
Meling, Tomoyo and Sakura sat in their apartment eating their take- out dinner and watching TV, when there was a knock at the door. "I'll get it." Meling offered. She put her plate on the table next to her and walked over to the door. She opened and found a young woman, slightly older then herself. She had brown hair worn down to her shoulder blades with some of it formed into two braids. She was soaked so Meling guessed she had walked for quite a while.
"Hey girl!" The girl smiled cheerfully at her. She bounced up and down as if she was crazy. Meling slammed the door on her. (She wasn't going to let a psycho in the apartment.)
"Who was it?" Tomoyo asked as she and Sakura walked to the door.
"It was some crazy girl. She was a big weirdo." Meling rolled her eyes. "Seemed very sugar high."
"Oh no." Sakura yelped. "Did this girl have brown hair, some in braids, some not?" She asked.
"Yup." Meling nodded. "How did you know?"
"Nakuru……" Sakura sighed and dropped her head. "Open the door." She told Meling.
Meling turned the doorknob and the girl poked her head in. "SAKURA!" She smiled. She ran over and hugged her tightly. "Jeesh, your friend was really rude." She stopped hugging her and put her hands on her hips.
"I'm sorry Nakuru, you scared Meling a bit." Sakura sweatdropped.
"Who? Little old me?" Nakuru pointed at her face.
"Sakura, who is this?" Tomoyo asked.
"Um, well, when I was a freshman in the private high school I went to, Nakuru was a senior." Sakura explained. "We were good friends."
"Right!" Nakuru smiled yet again.
"So what are you doing here?" Sakura asked.
"Well I got kicked out of my apartment, something about giant cockroaches, and I was going to call home to get my mom bring me home, but I saw you had an apartment nearby, so I decided I would see if you would let me pay part of the rent. What do you say?" Nakuru blurted out.
"Um……." The other three girls said and cringed. They were still kind of grossed out about the giant cockroaches. The then formed a huddle and discussed the idea. "Well she's not that bad, once you get used to her." Sakura shugged.
"Ya, I guess that's probably true." Tomoyo nodded.
"Not to mention we'll have to pay less rent." Meling pointed.
"Right." Sakura and Tomoyo agreed.
"So she can stay?" Sakura asked.
"Yes." Meling and Tomoyo nodded.
They walked out of the huddle and faced Nakuru. "Have you reached a verdict?" Nakuru asked with a giggle.
Sakura nodded. "Yes. You can stay."
"Alright!" Nakuru threw her hand in the air. "Now can one of you drive me back to my old place to pick up my stuff? I kinda lost my car." She scratched her head.
The other girls fell to the ground and sweatdropped.
***
Sakura parked her car in the apartment garage and she and Nakuru walked to the trunk to take out her stuff and brought it upstairs. They had just ridden over to Nakuru's old apartment.
When they reached the apartment door Yue and Syaoran emerged from their apartment, but they were undetected because Yue pulled Syaoran back in when he saw who was coming. "What's wrong with you?" Syaoran asked.
"Nakuru." Yue said simply.
"Who?" Syaoran blinked.
"She's my sister." Yue gulpped.
"Your WHAT!?" Syaoran gasped. "I didn't know you had a sister."
"Well, technically, she's only my half sister, and a pain at that." Yue sighed. "She usually stayed with her father, and never spent time with her mother and my father or me for that matter. I'm pretty glad about that because she was always a pain in my side."
"Well I don't care who she is! I have to get out to my car!" Syaoran told Yue and marched out into the hall. Yue slid out behind them.
"You asked for it." He sighed.
Nakuru heard them and spun around. "YUE!" She shouted and went over to hug him. Yue's face turned purple and he pried Nakuru off him.
"What are you doing here?" He asked.
"I'm moving in with the girls!" She grinned with excitement.
"Oh great." Yue rolled his eyes.
"You two know each other?" Sakura asked.
"Unfortunatly." Yue sighed.
There was an akward silence and everyone just kind of looked in separate directions. "Oh! I see what's going on here!" Nakura giggled devilishly. "Sakura, you still have that crush on Yue that you had in high school!"
Sakura blushed deeply. "WHAT!? You have got to be kidding!" Sakura shouted. She dragged Nakuru into the apartment.
"Hey! What did I do?" Nakuru whined. Sakura tossed Nakuru into the room and walked back over to Yue and Syaoran.
"What she just said, they're all lies! Lies, lies, lies!" She dashed back into the apartment.
"Do you want to….." Syaoran started.
"No. No, I am going back into the apartment and I am not going to ask." He sighed and rubbed his forehead then walked back inside while Syaoran went to the car.
***
A week later Sakura walked down to the corner store to pick up a gallon of milk. She stopped on her way out when she saw Syaoran talking with Meling. "What's this all about?" She whispered to herself. "Syaoran's probobly begging for forgiveness." She snickered. "Well if Meling is giving him a chance, I guess I will too." She sighed. "He just better not be a jerk again."
About ten minutes later Sakura was almost at the apartment building when she heard someone crying behind her. She turned around and saw Meling running up to her. "Meling! What happened?" She asked.
Meling sobbed for a few moments and then finally spoke. "Syaoran wanted to talk so I decided to give him another chance and he didn't say anything for a while then finally just kinda went…I don't know….crazy and started shouting at himself and finally shouted that he hated me!" Meling started crying again.
Sakura gripped the milk in her hand and almost broke it. She handed it to Meling. "Here, take this home. I'm going to have a little chat with Syaoran." Meling took the milk and ran back to the apartment. 'I don't know what his problem is, but I'm going to find out.' Sakura thought. "One minute he's trying to get Meling to forgive him and the next he's screaming at her and saying he can never love her!'
She finally found Syaoran just outside the library. No one was around so she walked right up to him and slapped him on the cheek. She pulled her hand back and glared at him.
Syaoran brought his palm to his cheek. What did you do that for!?" He shouted.
"Syaoran, I am sick of you and you emotional constipation!" She cried. She had tears in her eyes and her teeth were gritted. "Meling is back at the apartment, crying her eyes out and I bet you don't care at all!" She shouted. "O maybe you do care! Would you make up your mind? That girl is crazy about you and all she wants is to be able to trust you and love you again, and you keep seeming like your going to give her that chance, but then you turn around and tell her you hate her! Why are you hurting her so much? You love her. I can see it in your eyes. You love her more than you'll ever love me or anyone else and don't tell me other wise! Now you go back and tell her your sorry and tell her how you really feel!"
Syaoran stared at Sakura with both shock and grief. "I….I can't tell her." He muttered.
"WHY!?" Sakura demanded to know.
"If I do I'll, I just don't know." He paused. "I just don't want to hurt her the way I hurt you." He blurted out.
"Is that what this is about?" Sakura asked. Syaoran nodded. "Syaoran, yes, I was hurt for a while but now I see that you did the right thing. I knew it was coming and I was somewhat ready. I knew deep down in my heart that you always loved Meling. I'm fine with that and I have healed. I know someday I'll find someone who loves me as much as you love Meling. But if you don't go talk to her know Meling will never forgive you!" Sakura told him as tears rolled down her cheeks.
Syaoran nodded. "Are you sure?" He asked.
"Yes."
"Thank-you Sakura."
"Not a problem." She replied.
Syaoran headed to the apartment building. He stopped and turned around. "Hey Sakura." He called.
"Ya?"
"Why are you doing this?" He asked.
"I just want to see all my friends happy." Sakura replied simply. Syaoran nodded and continued to the apartment.
When he reached room 256 he knocked on the door. Meling opened it with a tear-stained face and when she saw who it was she swiftly closed the door.
"Meling! I need to talk to you." Syaoran told her.
"Go away Syaoran! I don't want to hear it anymore."
"Please Meling! You have to hear me out. I'm really sorry I said what said. I was scared. Scared that I would hurt you. But Meling, really, I, I, I, I love you." He told her as tears began to fall from his eyes.
Meling slowly opened the door. "Really?" She asked.
"Yes, really." Syaoran nodded.
Meling smiled. "I guess I love you too." She replied.
"You guess?"
"Well you know you were kind of a jerk." Meling pointed out.
"Will you let me explain over some coffee?" Syaoran suggested.
"Yuck! I hate coffee, but I would love some hot cocoa!"
"Alright, lets go." Syaoran extended his hand, which Meling took. They both walked outside.
Sakura hid behind an open door and watched two of her friends walk outside hand and hand. She sighed, half sad, half satisfied.
She glanced in the other direction and saw Nakuru and Yue walking her way. She quickly dashed to her apartment.
***
A few days later everyone had heard that Meling and Syaoran were now together. Sakura, Tomoyo and Meling were sitting in their apartment, study for an exam coming up. Tomoyo seemed to be in somewhat of a daze while they were all taking a small break. Sakura was recalling about how she had first found out that the three guys had moved in across the hall. "So I handed out the key to whoever was at the door, and it was Eriol!" Sakura cracked up remembering what she had felt when she saw him she had a complete melt down.
As soon as Sakura said Eriol's name Tomoyo snapped out of her dazed look. "Eriol? What? Where?" She gasped and looked around them room. She froze when she caught her two friends starring at her and blushed. "Um, ya, well lets get back to studying!" She suggested.
"Ya….sure." Meling and Sakura said vaguely.
***
That night Sakura could not sleep so she decided to take a walk through the park. She soon figured she had made a bad decision when she started to feel uncomfortable in the park. She carried her purse, which she had brought with her just in case. She heard rustling sounds behind her and got a little scared. She wasn't too worried because she had been taking a self-defense class lately and she was pretty good. But whoever seemed to be behind her had quicker reflexes than her and talked her from behind. Sakura was flung to the ground and the thief took her purse. He started to run away but someone appeared in front of him. The new arriver knocked him to the ground and grabbed the purse back. The thief got up and the person knocked him unconscious. He slowly walked over to Sakura and as he walked under the street lamp Sakura saw it was Eriol. "I believe this is yours." He handed her the purse.
Sakura took it. "Thanks Eriol. I really appreciate it." She smiled at him. Sakura looked at Eriol's face. It seemed to be in the same daze as Tomoyo earlier. Sakura snickered slyly. 'Well we can forget about Tomoyo and Eriol hating each other.' She thought. 'Well if it worked on Tomoyo….' Sakura took a deep breath. "Tomoyo." She simply said.
Eriol snapped out of it. "Tomoyo? What where?" He looked around. Sakura burst out laughing. "What's so funny?" He demanded.
"Oh nothing….." Sakura sighed and walked back to her apartment.
***
A couple weeks later, the first snow of the season came. (Does it snow in Hong Kong? Oh well *Shrugs*) Sakura sat on the couch, watching TV when Tomoyo came over to her. "Why don't we go ice skating!?" She suggested happily.
"Sure, I'd love to!" Sakura agreed and turned the TV off and grabbed her coat and skates. "You go on ahead to my car. I'll meet you there." She told Tomoyo. Tomoyo left out the door. Sakura got her things and went out the door, but instead of going to the parking area she went across the hall. She knocked on the guy's apartment door.
Eriol answered the door. "Hello Sakura."
"Hey Eriol. Now, if I were you I would head down to the city ice rink." She said slyly.
"Why?" He asked curiously.
"Well Tomoyo and I are going there and well Tomoyo gets very distracted when she skating so you might get a chance to talk to her if you know what I mean." Sakura winked at him. Eriol's face got red but looked excited at the same time.
"Thanks Sakura!" He told her and hugged her. Sakura looked at him shocked. Eriol backed away and closed the door.
"No problem."
***
Eriol sprinted across the apartment to his room and past Syaoran and Yue. He grabbed his coat and put it on and grabbed his ice skates. He dashed back to the door. "I'm going ice skating!" He called back to the other two and slammed the door behind him.
"What was with him?" Syaoran asked.
Yue just shrugged.
***
Sakura skated off the ice and sat down to take a break. Tomoyo was the only one on the ice at this point and she looked like an expert skater in the Olympics.
Sakura saw Eriol glide on to the ice and snuck up behind Tomoyo. He placed his hands on her waist as if they were ice skating partners. "Eriol! What are you doing here?" Tomoyo sneered.
"I need to talk to you." Eriol told her.
"Keep it to yourself. I don't want to hear it. Just leave me alone." Tomoyo huffed.
"I won't leave you alone. You need to hear this." Eriol protested.
"Fine." Tomoyo sighed. This better be good."
"Tomoyo, this is all one big misunderstanding." Eriol started.
"Oh?"
"That Christmas, when you confided in me, I thought you were talking about someone else, not me and I got upset. I really liked you Tomoyo and I wanted to tell you so much, but I didn't know how. As for your gift, I didn't know it was yours until that night….."
Everyone had left Eriol's house except for Kaho. They both cleaned up the rest of the wrapping paper that lay scattered across the floor. Eriol spotted the paper that was from the mysterious gift he received. He looked more carefully at it and found some writing on it. He squinted his eyes and read it.
"To Eriol, Love Tomoyo."
Eriol gasped and more tears fell down his already tear stained cheeks.
"I was so upset and angry at myself for not knowing how you felt." Eriol began to cry.
"Then what about the kiss?" Tomoyo asked fighting back tears.
"The kiss, that, that was not what you think." Eriol explained. I had gone to Kaho for advice about you and how I felt about you and how I thought you did not love me the same way. When I kissed her that was like a kiss someone would give to a friend or sibling or parent. It was not a lover's kiss." He told her.
Tomoyo stopped skating as they had been skating all of this time. "Is that the truth?" Tomoyo asked now crying as well.
"Of course it is! I love you." Eriol half cried-half laughed.
"You do?" She choked.
"Yes!" Eriol assured her.
"I love you too!" Tomoyo cried and hugged Eriol tightly.
***
Sakura sat on the bench and sighed with contentment. "You truly are the bravest person I have ever met." A voice said behind her. Sakura jumped then looked behind her. Nakuru stood behind her. She moved closer and sat next to Sakura on the bench.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked.
"Well, you are able to fix your friends relationships, yet you do not get upset knowing you yourself don't have one to love." Nakuru explained.
"Oh, I'm fine. I know there's someone out there waiting for me." Sakura said looking up at the setting sun.
"Closer than you think" Nakuru said under her breath so Sakura did not hear her as she glanced over to Yue who starred at them at a distance.
***
(Okay, drum roll please…….Time for some Sakura+Yue fluff! YEAH! ^_^)
The next night Meling, Syaoran, Tomoyo and Eriol were out on dates. Sakura was in her apartment with Nakuru who was getting ready to go out. "So where are you going?" Sakura asked.
"I'm going to meet a close friend." Nakuru replied.
"A guy?" Sakura inquired.
"Yes, you may even know them."
"Who is it?"
"You'll see later. Now I have to go." She smiled and walked out the door.
"She's probably going out with Yue." Sakura sighed sadly. (Remember she doesn't know their brother and sister.)
Later that night Sakura picked up her spare key to the guy's apartment. She wanted to borrow a DVD. She unlocked the door and walked in and saw they left some of the lights on. She walked over to where they kept the DVDs and looked at them all.
Suddenly she heard someone creeping through the kitchen. Sakura gasped. 'Someone must have broke into the apartment!' She thought. She picked up a giant book that was on the floor and walked towards the kitchen. She held the book up in the air and waited for the robber to come out. She was surprised when not a robber but Yue walked through the door. "Yue!?"
"Sakura?" Yue said surprised. "What are you doing here?"
"Um, well." Sakura blushed and put the book down. "I came over to borrow a DVD." She explained. "What are you doing here? I thought you were going out with Nakuru tonight."
Yue almost choked on air. "Me, and Nakuru? Why, we are half brother and sister and she's a pain in my side."
Sakura blushed even more at her mistake. "Oh I'm sorry! I didn't know!"
"Don't worry. It was an easy mistake to make." Yue sympathized. "So what movie were you planning on watching?" He asked.
"I was going to watch "Princess Mononoke, but it's a pretty violent movie so you may no want to watch it." She grinned and went back to the DVDs.
"I think that if you can handle it so can I." Yue huffed and walked over with her.
"Okay then we'll watch it here!" Sakura giggled. "You put the movie in and I'll get some popcorn at our place." Sakura said and went back to her apartment and made some popcorn and put it in a bowl. She went back to the apartment and sat on the couch, next to Yue.
Towards the end of the movie Sakura was leaning against Yue's chest. When the movie ended Yue stopped the DVD. "That was the most disgusting movie I have ever seen." He laughed.
"I warned you." Sakura reminded him. She smiled and looked up to see Yue starring down at her. She noticed their faces were getting closer, their lips about to meet.
"Yue! I'm home!" Syaoran shouted merrily from the door. Sakura and Yue quickly jumped to opposite sides of the couch.
"Well that was a great movie Yue." Sakura said nervously and dashed out the door.
She just reached the door to her apartment when Yue came out of his apartment with the popcorn bowl. "You forgot this." He said and handed her the bowl. Before leaving he slowly bent down and kissed her gently on the lips. "Bye." He smiled slightly and went back in his apartment.
"What…..was …..that?"
Author's notes: That was a long chapter wasn't it? But finally we have some Sakura+Yue going on!
In the next chapter We'll see Sakura's complete reaction to the kiss and we'll see who Nakuru went to see. See you next chapter! ^_^
Chapter Three
~Selene Serenity~
Disclaimer: I don't own Cardcaptor Sakura. It is property of Clamp. This story line on the other hand belongs to me, so please ask me before putting on your site. Princess Mononoke does not belong to me either and my reasoning for saying this will appear later in the chapter.
Author's notes: Hello everyone. I'm back with a new installment of my CCS fanfic. I hope you are enjoying it! In this chapter Sakura decides to play matchmaker and a new roommate comes to apartment 256. Please R+R!
~Chapter Three~
It was a rainy Saturday and Sakura, Meling, Tomoyo, Yue, Syaoran, and Eriol all stayed inside their own apartments. The six seldom talked to each other and if they did all they were doing was fighting. (Well the girls talked to each other and the guys talked to each other. You know what I mean ^_^)
Down the street from their apartment building, a young woman walked down the sidewalk, getting soaked. She spotted a phone booth and lid in. She opened the phone book and skimmed through it she stopped at a name and started to dial the number. She suddenly saw another name and froze. She hung up the phone and ripped out the page. She took a good look at it and shoved in her pocket and stepped out of the phone booth. She continued to walk down the sidewalk.
***
Meling, Tomoyo and Sakura sat in their apartment eating their take- out dinner and watching TV, when there was a knock at the door. "I'll get it." Meling offered. She put her plate on the table next to her and walked over to the door. She opened and found a young woman, slightly older then herself. She had brown hair worn down to her shoulder blades with some of it formed into two braids. She was soaked so Meling guessed she had walked for quite a while.
"Hey girl!" The girl smiled cheerfully at her. She bounced up and down as if she was crazy. Meling slammed the door on her. (She wasn't going to let a psycho in the apartment.)
"Who was it?" Tomoyo asked as she and Sakura walked to the door.
"It was some crazy girl. She was a big weirdo." Meling rolled her eyes. "Seemed very sugar high."
"Oh no." Sakura yelped. "Did this girl have brown hair, some in braids, some not?" She asked.
"Yup." Meling nodded. "How did you know?"
"Nakuru……" Sakura sighed and dropped her head. "Open the door." She told Meling.
Meling turned the doorknob and the girl poked her head in. "SAKURA!" She smiled. She ran over and hugged her tightly. "Jeesh, your friend was really rude." She stopped hugging her and put her hands on her hips.
"I'm sorry Nakuru, you scared Meling a bit." Sakura sweatdropped.
"Who? Little old me?" Nakuru pointed at her face.
"Sakura, who is this?" Tomoyo asked.
"Um, well, when I was a freshman in the private high school I went to, Nakuru was a senior." Sakura explained. "We were good friends."
"Right!" Nakuru smiled yet again.
"So what are you doing here?" Sakura asked.
"Well I got kicked out of my apartment, something about giant cockroaches, and I was going to call home to get my mom bring me home, but I saw you had an apartment nearby, so I decided I would see if you would let me pay part of the rent. What do you say?" Nakuru blurted out.
"Um……." The other three girls said and cringed. They were still kind of grossed out about the giant cockroaches. The then formed a huddle and discussed the idea. "Well she's not that bad, once you get used to her." Sakura shugged.
"Ya, I guess that's probably true." Tomoyo nodded.
"Not to mention we'll have to pay less rent." Meling pointed.
"Right." Sakura and Tomoyo agreed.
"So she can stay?" Sakura asked.
"Yes." Meling and Tomoyo nodded.
They walked out of the huddle and faced Nakuru. "Have you reached a verdict?" Nakuru asked with a giggle.
Sakura nodded. "Yes. You can stay."
"Alright!" Nakuru threw her hand in the air. "Now can one of you drive me back to my old place to pick up my stuff? I kinda lost my car." She scratched her head.
The other girls fell to the ground and sweatdropped.
***
Sakura parked her car in the apartment garage and she and Nakuru walked to the trunk to take out her stuff and brought it upstairs. They had just ridden over to Nakuru's old apartment.
When they reached the apartment door Yue and Syaoran emerged from their apartment, but they were undetected because Yue pulled Syaoran back in when he saw who was coming. "What's wrong with you?" Syaoran asked.
"Nakuru." Yue said simply.
"Who?" Syaoran blinked.
"She's my sister." Yue gulpped.
"Your WHAT!?" Syaoran gasped. "I didn't know you had a sister."
"Well, technically, she's only my half sister, and a pain at that." Yue sighed. "She usually stayed with her father, and never spent time with her mother and my father or me for that matter. I'm pretty glad about that because she was always a pain in my side."
"Well I don't care who she is! I have to get out to my car!" Syaoran told Yue and marched out into the hall. Yue slid out behind them.
"You asked for it." He sighed.
Nakuru heard them and spun around. "YUE!" She shouted and went over to hug him. Yue's face turned purple and he pried Nakuru off him.
"What are you doing here?" He asked.
"I'm moving in with the girls!" She grinned with excitement.
"Oh great." Yue rolled his eyes.
"You two know each other?" Sakura asked.
"Unfortunatly." Yue sighed.
There was an akward silence and everyone just kind of looked in separate directions. "Oh! I see what's going on here!" Nakura giggled devilishly. "Sakura, you still have that crush on Yue that you had in high school!"
Sakura blushed deeply. "WHAT!? You have got to be kidding!" Sakura shouted. She dragged Nakuru into the apartment.
"Hey! What did I do?" Nakuru whined. Sakura tossed Nakuru into the room and walked back over to Yue and Syaoran.
"What she just said, they're all lies! Lies, lies, lies!" She dashed back into the apartment.
"Do you want to….." Syaoran started.
"No. No, I am going back into the apartment and I am not going to ask." He sighed and rubbed his forehead then walked back inside while Syaoran went to the car.
***
A week later Sakura walked down to the corner store to pick up a gallon of milk. She stopped on her way out when she saw Syaoran talking with Meling. "What's this all about?" She whispered to herself. "Syaoran's probobly begging for forgiveness." She snickered. "Well if Meling is giving him a chance, I guess I will too." She sighed. "He just better not be a jerk again."
About ten minutes later Sakura was almost at the apartment building when she heard someone crying behind her. She turned around and saw Meling running up to her. "Meling! What happened?" She asked.
Meling sobbed for a few moments and then finally spoke. "Syaoran wanted to talk so I decided to give him another chance and he didn't say anything for a while then finally just kinda went…I don't know….crazy and started shouting at himself and finally shouted that he hated me!" Meling started crying again.
Sakura gripped the milk in her hand and almost broke it. She handed it to Meling. "Here, take this home. I'm going to have a little chat with Syaoran." Meling took the milk and ran back to the apartment. 'I don't know what his problem is, but I'm going to find out.' Sakura thought. "One minute he's trying to get Meling to forgive him and the next he's screaming at her and saying he can never love her!'
She finally found Syaoran just outside the library. No one was around so she walked right up to him and slapped him on the cheek. She pulled her hand back and glared at him.
Syaoran brought his palm to his cheek. What did you do that for!?" He shouted.
"Syaoran, I am sick of you and you emotional constipation!" She cried. She had tears in her eyes and her teeth were gritted. "Meling is back at the apartment, crying her eyes out and I bet you don't care at all!" She shouted. "O maybe you do care! Would you make up your mind? That girl is crazy about you and all she wants is to be able to trust you and love you again, and you keep seeming like your going to give her that chance, but then you turn around and tell her you hate her! Why are you hurting her so much? You love her. I can see it in your eyes. You love her more than you'll ever love me or anyone else and don't tell me other wise! Now you go back and tell her your sorry and tell her how you really feel!"
Syaoran stared at Sakura with both shock and grief. "I….I can't tell her." He muttered.
"WHY!?" Sakura demanded to know.
"If I do I'll, I just don't know." He paused. "I just don't want to hurt her the way I hurt you." He blurted out.
"Is that what this is about?" Sakura asked. Syaoran nodded. "Syaoran, yes, I was hurt for a while but now I see that you did the right thing. I knew it was coming and I was somewhat ready. I knew deep down in my heart that you always loved Meling. I'm fine with that and I have healed. I know someday I'll find someone who loves me as much as you love Meling. But if you don't go talk to her know Meling will never forgive you!" Sakura told him as tears rolled down her cheeks.
Syaoran nodded. "Are you sure?" He asked.
"Yes."
"Thank-you Sakura."
"Not a problem." She replied.
Syaoran headed to the apartment building. He stopped and turned around. "Hey Sakura." He called.
"Ya?"
"Why are you doing this?" He asked.
"I just want to see all my friends happy." Sakura replied simply. Syaoran nodded and continued to the apartment.
When he reached room 256 he knocked on the door. Meling opened it with a tear-stained face and when she saw who it was she swiftly closed the door.
"Meling! I need to talk to you." Syaoran told her.
"Go away Syaoran! I don't want to hear it anymore."
"Please Meling! You have to hear me out. I'm really sorry I said what said. I was scared. Scared that I would hurt you. But Meling, really, I, I, I, I love you." He told her as tears began to fall from his eyes.
Meling slowly opened the door. "Really?" She asked.
"Yes, really." Syaoran nodded.
Meling smiled. "I guess I love you too." She replied.
"You guess?"
"Well you know you were kind of a jerk." Meling pointed out.
"Will you let me explain over some coffee?" Syaoran suggested.
"Yuck! I hate coffee, but I would love some hot cocoa!"
"Alright, lets go." Syaoran extended his hand, which Meling took. They both walked outside.
Sakura hid behind an open door and watched two of her friends walk outside hand and hand. She sighed, half sad, half satisfied.
She glanced in the other direction and saw Nakuru and Yue walking her way. She quickly dashed to her apartment.
***
A few days later everyone had heard that Meling and Syaoran were now together. Sakura, Tomoyo and Meling were sitting in their apartment, study for an exam coming up. Tomoyo seemed to be in somewhat of a daze while they were all taking a small break. Sakura was recalling about how she had first found out that the three guys had moved in across the hall. "So I handed out the key to whoever was at the door, and it was Eriol!" Sakura cracked up remembering what she had felt when she saw him she had a complete melt down.
As soon as Sakura said Eriol's name Tomoyo snapped out of her dazed look. "Eriol? What? Where?" She gasped and looked around them room. She froze when she caught her two friends starring at her and blushed. "Um, ya, well lets get back to studying!" She suggested.
"Ya….sure." Meling and Sakura said vaguely.
***
That night Sakura could not sleep so she decided to take a walk through the park. She soon figured she had made a bad decision when she started to feel uncomfortable in the park. She carried her purse, which she had brought with her just in case. She heard rustling sounds behind her and got a little scared. She wasn't too worried because she had been taking a self-defense class lately and she was pretty good. But whoever seemed to be behind her had quicker reflexes than her and talked her from behind. Sakura was flung to the ground and the thief took her purse. He started to run away but someone appeared in front of him. The new arriver knocked him to the ground and grabbed the purse back. The thief got up and the person knocked him unconscious. He slowly walked over to Sakura and as he walked under the street lamp Sakura saw it was Eriol. "I believe this is yours." He handed her the purse.
Sakura took it. "Thanks Eriol. I really appreciate it." She smiled at him. Sakura looked at Eriol's face. It seemed to be in the same daze as Tomoyo earlier. Sakura snickered slyly. 'Well we can forget about Tomoyo and Eriol hating each other.' She thought. 'Well if it worked on Tomoyo….' Sakura took a deep breath. "Tomoyo." She simply said.
Eriol snapped out of it. "Tomoyo? What where?" He looked around. Sakura burst out laughing. "What's so funny?" He demanded.
"Oh nothing….." Sakura sighed and walked back to her apartment.
***
A couple weeks later, the first snow of the season came. (Does it snow in Hong Kong? Oh well *Shrugs*) Sakura sat on the couch, watching TV when Tomoyo came over to her. "Why don't we go ice skating!?" She suggested happily.
"Sure, I'd love to!" Sakura agreed and turned the TV off and grabbed her coat and skates. "You go on ahead to my car. I'll meet you there." She told Tomoyo. Tomoyo left out the door. Sakura got her things and went out the door, but instead of going to the parking area she went across the hall. She knocked on the guy's apartment door.
Eriol answered the door. "Hello Sakura."
"Hey Eriol. Now, if I were you I would head down to the city ice rink." She said slyly.
"Why?" He asked curiously.
"Well Tomoyo and I are going there and well Tomoyo gets very distracted when she skating so you might get a chance to talk to her if you know what I mean." Sakura winked at him. Eriol's face got red but looked excited at the same time.
"Thanks Sakura!" He told her and hugged her. Sakura looked at him shocked. Eriol backed away and closed the door.
"No problem."
***
Eriol sprinted across the apartment to his room and past Syaoran and Yue. He grabbed his coat and put it on and grabbed his ice skates. He dashed back to the door. "I'm going ice skating!" He called back to the other two and slammed the door behind him.
"What was with him?" Syaoran asked.
Yue just shrugged.
***
Sakura skated off the ice and sat down to take a break. Tomoyo was the only one on the ice at this point and she looked like an expert skater in the Olympics.
Sakura saw Eriol glide on to the ice and snuck up behind Tomoyo. He placed his hands on her waist as if they were ice skating partners. "Eriol! What are you doing here?" Tomoyo sneered.
"I need to talk to you." Eriol told her.
"Keep it to yourself. I don't want to hear it. Just leave me alone." Tomoyo huffed.
"I won't leave you alone. You need to hear this." Eriol protested.
"Fine." Tomoyo sighed. This better be good."
"Tomoyo, this is all one big misunderstanding." Eriol started.
"Oh?"
"That Christmas, when you confided in me, I thought you were talking about someone else, not me and I got upset. I really liked you Tomoyo and I wanted to tell you so much, but I didn't know how. As for your gift, I didn't know it was yours until that night….."
Everyone had left Eriol's house except for Kaho. They both cleaned up the rest of the wrapping paper that lay scattered across the floor. Eriol spotted the paper that was from the mysterious gift he received. He looked more carefully at it and found some writing on it. He squinted his eyes and read it.
"To Eriol, Love Tomoyo."
Eriol gasped and more tears fell down his already tear stained cheeks.
"I was so upset and angry at myself for not knowing how you felt." Eriol began to cry.
"Then what about the kiss?" Tomoyo asked fighting back tears.
"The kiss, that, that was not what you think." Eriol explained. I had gone to Kaho for advice about you and how I felt about you and how I thought you did not love me the same way. When I kissed her that was like a kiss someone would give to a friend or sibling or parent. It was not a lover's kiss." He told her.
Tomoyo stopped skating as they had been skating all of this time. "Is that the truth?" Tomoyo asked now crying as well.
"Of course it is! I love you." Eriol half cried-half laughed.
"You do?" She choked.
"Yes!" Eriol assured her.
"I love you too!" Tomoyo cried and hugged Eriol tightly.
***
Sakura sat on the bench and sighed with contentment. "You truly are the bravest person I have ever met." A voice said behind her. Sakura jumped then looked behind her. Nakuru stood behind her. She moved closer and sat next to Sakura on the bench.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked.
"Well, you are able to fix your friends relationships, yet you do not get upset knowing you yourself don't have one to love." Nakuru explained.
"Oh, I'm fine. I know there's someone out there waiting for me." Sakura said looking up at the setting sun.
"Closer than you think" Nakuru said under her breath so Sakura did not hear her as she glanced over to Yue who starred at them at a distance.
***
(Okay, drum roll please…….Time for some Sakura+Yue fluff! YEAH! ^_^)
The next night Meling, Syaoran, Tomoyo and Eriol were out on dates. Sakura was in her apartment with Nakuru who was getting ready to go out. "So where are you going?" Sakura asked.
"I'm going to meet a close friend." Nakuru replied.
"A guy?" Sakura inquired.
"Yes, you may even know them."
"Who is it?"
"You'll see later. Now I have to go." She smiled and walked out the door.
"She's probably going out with Yue." Sakura sighed sadly. (Remember she doesn't know their brother and sister.)
Later that night Sakura picked up her spare key to the guy's apartment. She wanted to borrow a DVD. She unlocked the door and walked in and saw they left some of the lights on. She walked over to where they kept the DVDs and looked at them all.
Suddenly she heard someone creeping through the kitchen. Sakura gasped. 'Someone must have broke into the apartment!' She thought. She picked up a giant book that was on the floor and walked towards the kitchen. She held the book up in the air and waited for the robber to come out. She was surprised when not a robber but Yue walked through the door. "Yue!?"
"Sakura?" Yue said surprised. "What are you doing here?"
"Um, well." Sakura blushed and put the book down. "I came over to borrow a DVD." She explained. "What are you doing here? I thought you were going out with Nakuru tonight."
Yue almost choked on air. "Me, and Nakuru? Why, we are half brother and sister and she's a pain in my side."
Sakura blushed even more at her mistake. "Oh I'm sorry! I didn't know!"
"Don't worry. It was an easy mistake to make." Yue sympathized. "So what movie were you planning on watching?" He asked.
"I was going to watch "Princess Mononoke, but it's a pretty violent movie so you may no want to watch it." She grinned and went back to the DVDs.
"I think that if you can handle it so can I." Yue huffed and walked over with her.
"Okay then we'll watch it here!" Sakura giggled. "You put the movie in and I'll get some popcorn at our place." Sakura said and went back to her apartment and made some popcorn and put it in a bowl. She went back to the apartment and sat on the couch, next to Yue.
Towards the end of the movie Sakura was leaning against Yue's chest. When the movie ended Yue stopped the DVD. "That was the most disgusting movie I have ever seen." He laughed.
"I warned you." Sakura reminded him. She smiled and looked up to see Yue starring down at her. She noticed their faces were getting closer, their lips about to meet.
"Yue! I'm home!" Syaoran shouted merrily from the door. Sakura and Yue quickly jumped to opposite sides of the couch.
"Well that was a great movie Yue." Sakura said nervously and dashed out the door.
She just reached the door to her apartment when Yue came out of his apartment with the popcorn bowl. "You forgot this." He said and handed her the bowl. Before leaving he slowly bent down and kissed her gently on the lips. "Bye." He smiled slightly and went back in his apartment.
"What…..was …..that?"
Author's notes: That was a long chapter wasn't it? But finally we have some Sakura+Yue going on!
In the next chapter We'll see Sakura's complete reaction to the kiss and we'll see who Nakuru went to see. See you next chapter! ^_^