AN: A huge thanks to Cardcaptor girl for helping me pick out a ending to this chapter. ^_^ But there is still more to come in this story! Ohh and for those of you that don't understand chapter 4...well it'll all work out in later chapters, you'll see what I mean! Please R&R! :D

Oh and email me any suggestions or criticisms at lil808angel@hotmail.com!

Brilliant lights. Deafening music. Dancing teenagers. This scene occurred in Tomoyo's back yard exactly an hour or so ago. The party had ended. People were slowly trudging out of the Daidouji back yard, leaving immense amounts of rubbish and such all over it. Several teenagers sat in a relatively clean spot surveying the damage that the guests had done.

"Oh man, Tomoyo, your people are going to have fun cleaning this!" Ben said shaking his head with a laugh while he claimed a seat at the foot of the tree. Eriol, who sat near him, frowned slightly at the casual way he had used Tomoyo's first name.

"Well, if you're feeling sorry for them, perhaps you should help them." Tomoyo suggested with an amused smile. She turned her head toward him as she laid on the grass in front of him, her body toward the heavens.

He shot her a 'are you crazy?' look. "No way!" He glanced at the massive yard and shook his head. "No, no, no, no, forget I said anything."

Shawn smirked at his friend from his spot, which was near Tomoyo. "No, really Ben, I think you should help them. I know how you love to keep things clean. Remember, the time when I fell down and came into your room drenched in mud? You went berserk and ran out of the room! You were mad at me for a week for getting your carpet dirty!" Sakura and Tomoyo started to laugh when Shawn received sharp glares from the red head.

"I just liked to be clean! That's all! Plus, we were young. It doesn't count." Ben said frowning.

Sakura smiled and sat up from her spot near him. "Of course it counts!"

"Yeh, you had rational thought back then. You knew what you were doing," Eriol stated. "You ran away from the big scary swamp monster." Everyone burst out laughing except for Ben, who wore a pout on his face.

Ben looked up at the sky and said dramatically, "Why, why, why do I always get picked on??"

Without warning a bucket of ice cold water was dumped on him by someone sitting in the tree. Ben instantly reacted by jumping up and yelling, "AHH! SHIT!!! THAT'S COLD!!!"

Voices around him broke into laughter at this and scrambled to get out of the way as the water splashed.

The laugher subsided as they heard two voices arguing on the other side of the yard.

"I gave you my blessing by leaving you alone didn't I?! You of all people should believe me when I say that I'm happy!" Yelled a voice, sounding quite irritated.

"How would I know? We never talk anymore!" The other voice responded with a growl. "Your still my best friend! I worry about you 'cause you always lock yourself in your room and never associate with me or Wei! Either that or you go out!"

Enraged the first voice retorted back. "What! You can't handle it that I'm actually getting on with my life??" She gave a glare and continued. "And what are you whining about I do talk to you and Wei!"

The other figure scoffed. "Yeh but are they actual conversations? No. Tell me the last time we actually talked Meiling!"

The group across the lawn watched uncomfortably as the argument got more and more heated between the two teenagers. Soon both started to position themselves into a combating stance. They group looked at each other and without a word they all got up and ran across the lawn.

When they got there, the two were already throwing punches and kicks at each other rapidly. They appeared to be professional fighters during a serious sparring match, but it was too intense to be so. Both teenagers were moving at amazing speed and occasionally a fist or a foot made contact with the other's body.

Meiling launched another punch at Syaoran as he dodged and threw a kick at her mid-section. She turned around grabbed his foot and flipped him. He grunted as he flipped through the air and landed on his feet in a crouched stance. He lunged for her again fist heading for her stomach, this time he succeeded and he knocked the wind out of her. She looked up and glared at him in her recoiled position. Quickly recovering she kneed him in the gut as she spun around and gave him a harsh kick towards his shoulder.

It was then that the group of teenagers stopped gaping at the spectacle and tried to get into stop the fight. The person who dumped water on Ben, Scott, walked out and caught Meiling's clenched fist as she was about to fling it into Syaoran's face. Her eyes grew narrow as she saw a stranger stop her from what she desired to do.

Scott's eyes imitated her's as he tried to keep her away from her adversary.

From behind him, Syaoran recovered from the shock to his shoulder and growled. "Stay out of this. This is between Meiling and I."

Sakura's eyes showed concern as she cautiously took Syaoran's arm and tugged him unwillingly toward Tomoyo's mansion. He pulled away from her gently, walking tentatively toward Meiling and the stranger that popped out of nowhere. Eriol stepped in front of him and blocked his path toward the small girl. He shot Eriol a piercing look of pure venom.

"Syaoran, please." Sakura's voice pleaded.

She gave it another try when she saw Scott having trouble trying to restrain Meiling from lurching at Syaoran and Eriol trying to keep Syaoran from charging at Meiling. "Please Syaoran...you're going to kill each other."

Syaoran broke his fierce staring match with Meiling and looked at Sakura. He looked at her eyes for what seemed like a forever. Something in his eyes shimmered with realization for a split second. He glanced at Meiling with a look of distress, looking regretful of what he just did, and started toward the house reluctantly. Sakura, Tomoyo and Ben followed him apprehensively not knowing what to do, leaving Eriol, Scott, Shawn and Meiling under the calm midnight-blue sky.

Meiling's eyes flashed with anger as her eyes flickered from Scott to Syaoran and back. His eyes caught hers and she stared into Scott's faded gray eyes for a moment. She blinked as something in her mind clicked. Slowly tears started to overflow her big crimson eyes.

"I'm sorry." She whispered softly.

Scott was watching her reaction the whole time. Her fists was still in his grasp for he was afraid of how she'd react, but her head was turned downwards. He heard what she whispered and wondered at what she was sorry about, the fight or something else.

He didn't know what the relationship between the two were, but they were very skilled fighters, that he could see. They had near-identical fighting styles too, which confirmed one of his notions, they either train or trained together. They were probably friends, or maybe even more, that he wasn't so sure about. Suddenly she jerked herself from his firm hold and ran inside the Daidouji mansion.

Silence enveloped the four as Syaoran stood at a window and stared into the panorama of the night sky. Syaoran felt evil at what he just did to Meiling. He didn't know what came over him, he was just acting on instinct...

Sakura was about to raise a hand to his shoulder when Tomoyo stopped her with a silent shake of her head. Suddenly a figure broke the somber atmosphere by running through the living room and crashing into Syaoran.

Syaoran fell backwards into the wall. He hissed when his head hit the cold hard surface, but his gazed softened when he looked down to see a crying Meiling sobbing against his chest. Her arms were wrapped tightly around his waist and she kept whispering "I'm sorry."

Three figures ran in from the back door a moment later, stopped in their tracks and just stared, surprised at the scene before them.

Syaoran sighed and started to stroke the top of her hair whispering soothing thoughts into her ear. This reminded him of their childhood, whenever she would run crying into his arms he would comfort her and she would lay against his chest. He looked up at the other's shocked expressions. He knew what they were thinking, You guys were just fighting, and now you're hugging each other?? He knew they wouldn't understand.

Gently he sat down on the floor with his arm around Meiling. "Shhh...It's gonna be okay Mei." Meiling's eyes shot up to meet his at the childhood nickname.

"I'm sorry Syao...I really am..." She whispered burying her head against his chest once more.

"I know Mei...I know." He responded. His eyes met Sakura's emerald ones. She looked confused and a bit hurt. Brief moments of pain passed through his heart from seeing her confused and hurt expression. He looked down at Meiling again and tucked some raven hair behind her ears. Syaoran gazed at the girl in his arms, she was different. Not the girl he grew up with, somehow between her transferring to Japan and now, she'd grown up. He was confused to what led her to grow up so fast, but in the back of his mind he knew. He knew it was him.

Not only was Syaoran confused, all those present in that room were confused too. They saw Syaoran and Meiling fighting as if to their deaths, a couple minutes ago...but now, here they were in a tight embrace, one being comforted by the other.

Leaving well enough alone, Sakura silently stepped out the front door, into the night.

"Wait!" Tomoyo yelled after her, but Sakura didn't even look back. Tomoyo felt helpless, Sakura just left? Without saying goodbye to anybody? That isn't like her. She must be really dejected or angry or upset. Tears started to cloud her normally placid violet eyes, she wanted to help her friends, but there was nothing she could do anymore. Swiftly she wiped her eyes with her sleeves, hoping nobody noticed.

Turning her eyes back to everybody, she could see that Syaoran wanted to get up and go after Sakura, but he didn't want to disturb Meiling, who still laid in his arms. So he stayed. Syaoran couldn't understand why he chose to stay instead of going after the love of his life, but he did. And hopefully, he wouldn't have to regret it later.

Giving Eriol a meaningful look, Tomoyo pleaded Eriol with a pair of pained eyes. Eriol sighed, nodding and quickly walked out the front door after Sakura.

Feeling out of place, Ben went over to where Tomoyo was and gently squeezed her shoulders with his hand, trying to comfort her. He whispered in her ear, "Are you okay? Let's leave them alone and get you a drink okay?"

She smiled meekly and nodded. Ben motioned for Shawn and Scott to follow as he led Tomoyo to the kitchen.