Title: [Crossover]

Author: [KiokoCat]

Warnings: [I don't know…]

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Note: [Yeah, this is the same thing. Well, some fancy typing, that's it and some edits here and there. Enjoy!]

Chapter Four- Together Again

A boy was standing in front of the bathroom mirror, examining his face from various angles. He turned his head from left to right, his eyes fixed on his reflection the whole time. He had brown chestnut hair, thick dark brown eyebrows, and cold amber colored eyes.

 His eyes seemed to be always cold with hatred and anger. He flashed a killer smile to the reflection, his face changed in a way but the cold eyes remained the same. He sighed; a huge sigh, he turned his face back to the serious one he had before. He will always have a cold frightening eyes, it was there fixed on his face ever since he was born.

He picked up a comb and started combing his brown thick hair. If he can't change his cold eyes, he might as well change his other features so he'd look less frightening. Because today is a big day, today he will try to win the girl he of his dreams. But before he even ran the comb through his hair 3 times, he was interrupted by a loud voice.

"Syaoran, hurry up! We're going to be late for school!!!!!!!!" Merin screamed out from another room. Moments later her familiar long dark blue hair and cherry red eyes were seen at the doorway to the bathroom. A look of anger was on her face but it quickly went away as she saw Syaoran staring at his reflection and combing his hair in a slow gentle strokes.

"What's wrong?" She asked in a concerned voice. Merin had never seen Syaoran look into his reflection for more than a second. He never seemed to care about his looks before.

"What do you think of when you see me Merin? And don't lie." He said in a voice that showed no particular emotion.

"Well… I think of a boy who's brave, smart, strong, and seems to be good at everything. He seems to beat every obstacle that comes before him if he put his mind into it and he catches every girl's eyes."

          If I catch every girl's eyes, then why hadn't I caught Sakura's eyes? He thought sadly as he combed more slowly. Merin's voice kept on going, but he couldn't hear most of what she had said, he was deep in thought and her voice seemed to drift farther and farther away. Another loud yell from Merin brought him back from his thoughts.

"LI SYAORAN!!! Are you listening to me??!!!"

There was no answer from the boy.

"Syaoran," Her tone suddenly changed to a serious one. He listened.

"Is this about Sakura?" She said after a moment's pause.

He still didn't speak. But his eyes softened sadly, proving to Merin that she was right.

"You know you shouldn't worry about it so much. She loves you; she just doesn't know it yet. She's still confused about her feelings and with all the cards roaming around making trouble she hasn't had time to sort it out. You just have to wait cousin. Be patient and you'll see."

          He gave a weak smile from her short speech. He felt better already. Sometimes Merin can be mindless and stubborn but at other times, she could be caring and smart. He couldn't stand her most of the time but he knew he wouldn't stand it without her either. They care about each other more deeply than they seem on the outside.

Merin spoke up again. "Syaoran, Can we get a move on it now? You look like a girl the way you comb your hair so often. You're not gay are you?"

He blushed a little and angrily threw the comb he was holding toward Merin. She ducked just in time and the comb landed on the wall behind her. All those childhood fighting practices are useful in so many ways.

***

"Wow. I've never seen Yugi this sad before." Tristan announced.

The others sitting around him all agreed. Even Seto Kaiba noticed the sudden change in Yugi's mood.

"What do you think happened on that date with that girl?" Joey asked, suddenly quite worried about Yugi.

"I don't know but ever since he came back from it he'd been like this. And even after he came back from school today he was like this and you know how he's always happy after coming back from school!" Mai announced.

"It's all that Sakura's fault!" Suddenly Tea announced angrily. A frown was fixed on her face as she spoke through a twisted, up-side-down V mouth. Before anyone can speak she stood up and stomped out of the apartment.

***

"A card that changes your cloth, makes tornados, and causes rocks to charge at a person. Nope, no card comes to mind. What about you Sakura?" Syaoran was in Sakura's room pacing back and forth as he tried to figure out what the card they had encountered before was.

He had a puzzled face and a hand was on his chin, stroking it as if he had an invisible beard. Syaoran was deeply focused but however Sakura was off in another daydream.

She sat on her bed staring at the wall opposite of her with nothing but blankness in her eyes. Her lips were set straight without a hit of happiness or any other emotion. Syaoran noticed that something was wrong with her because she's been like that all day. No. She's been like that ever since her date with Yugi. He tried to switch her attention from the wall to himself.

"Sakura, SAKURA DID YOU HEAR ME?!!"

"Hmm…" She answered him, her eyes were still fixed on the wall, and they're still emotionless like before.

Syaoran stared hard at her. Sakura, once cheerful and energetic, was now emotionless and still. One could've mistaken her for a statue if they didn't look closely. And who caused all of this? Yugi... Syaoran stopped staring; he stomped out of the room and slammed the door shut behind him. But Sakura didn't even flinch; she was too busy in her own world that she didn't even notice her surroundings and of course, nor anything that's happening around it.

***

A knock was heard from the front door of the Kinomoto house. Tory removed his eyes from the book he was reading and walked to the door to greet the guest. A girl with shoulder length light brown hair and brown eyes looked up at him from the doorway. He gave her his usual glare and spoke in a cold voice.

"Who are you?"

She seemed to be in a bad mood too and was not frightened like the other visitors he encountered before.

"I'm looking for Kinomoto Sakura. Is she home?" She spoke with a glare, how her voice stayed so polite is a mystery to him. He gave a grunt and stepped aside, letting the stranger in.

"Upstairs, the blue door," He told her, never taking the glare off his face.

"Thanks." She muttered and hurried upstairs to Sakura.

***

A loud knock was heard around 30 minutes after Tea left the apartment. Joey opened the door, expecting the return of Tea, but what he met set his smile into a glare. A pair of cold eyes met his glare.

Syaoran stood at the doorway and without a polite greeting he pushed into the apartment. He stomped toward the bedrooms and opened the closest door he could find; he was looking for Yugi's bedroom.

Joey was following him close behind yelling at him about how he's not allowed in here and stuff. Syaoran couldn't hear him. He was too busy focusing his mind on something else instead.

Finally, he opened a door and inside was a sad looking Yugi lying on his bed staring at particularly nothing but the ceiling. Syaoran got into the room and quickly shut the door in Joey's face. He then locked it, the sound of Joey banging the door with his body outside traveled in the room.

***

"Sakura you need to see Yugi. He's really down about what happened." Tea said, starting the conversation.

Sakura looked at her at the mention of Yugi but her mindless self was still not cured. She stared at Tea with blank emerald eyes but did not speak or showed any acknowledgment of what she had said. She was like a mindless robot.

"SAKURA YOU ARE HURTING HIM! TALK TO HIM!!!"

Again she only stared. Tea was frustrated with Sakura by now. She walked over to Sakura, grabbed her wrist and began dragging her toward the apartment they now lived in, the apartment Yugi lived in.

***

Syaoran stared at Yugi through angered amber eyes. He panted heavily as he stared and his brain ached in hatred. Yugi on the other hand didn't seem to notice that somebody else was in his room as well; he just kept on staring at the ceiling. Syaoran broke the silence.

"Yugi what did you do to Sakura? She's in her room acting like a mindless robot! She can't even hear me shout at her!!" He yelled out through his panting.

Yugi did not move, did not speak, and by the look on his face, he obviously did not hear either. Syaoran was getting impatient.

"ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME YUGI??" He yelled out in frustration. When Yugi did not react to his yelling again, Syaoran lost his temper. He charged at Yugi and grabbed the front of his shirt. He pulled Yugi into a standing position and hissed out through clenched teeth, "Yugi. I am sick and tired of you. If you do not —"

He stopped talking because the upper part of his stomach started to burn. He suddenly let go of Yugi and took a step back. The thing that caused the burn was Yugi's necklace, the gold pyramid with a strange eye sign on it.

To his surprise the pyramid was glowing in a bright yellow light. Syaoran opened his mouth to ask what is going on but before he could make any sound come out something came out of the gold pyramid through the eye sign. It slowly took the form of a boy who's taller than Yugi but looked exactly the same as him, all except the eyes. The boy had cold narrowed eyes while Yugi had innocent big eyes. Yami had appeared.

"Leave Yugi alone," He said. His voice was different from Yugi's too. Yami's voice was very manly while Yugi's voice was still in its boyishness. Yami stared at the shocked Syaoran with his mouth opened.

It took Syaoran sometime to actually snap himself out of the shock he just witnessed. Syaoran had met Yami on the first day they had met but thought that he was Yugi's brother or something, little did he knew that the strange boy that looked exactly like Yugi, except for some minor differences, was a-a- thing that lived in his pyramid necklace. He shook out his thought and forced his mind back to Sakura and her situation.

Without a minute to spare, Syaoran charged at Yugi. Yami had tried to stop him but Syaoran dodge the Yugi- look-alike easily. After all, he did go through a childhood of training. He reached Yugi and was about to land a punch to his stomach when Yami, out of nowhere, suddenly got hold of his arm and slammed Syaoran back, toward a wall. Syaoran hit it with a loud bang and huge amount of pain from the strength Yami had used. He ignored the pain and tried to get up again, he failed. His head was hurting too much; it'd take minutes before it could calm down. So Syaoran sat there and waited, he fought the urge to faint and relax.

Suddenly the door slammed down making a louder noise than Syaoran had made from slamming into the wall. Joey jumped into the room, his eyes darting around the room wildly, searching for Syaoran and Yugi. He spotted Syaoran on the floor, sitting again the wall quite helpless and rushed to examine Yugi. Yami was leaning against the wall opposite to Syaoran, he kept a cold glare fixed on Syaoran and was making sure that he doesn't try to hurt Yugi again.

Syaoran felt his head calm down a little and forced himself to stand up. Yami took a step forward showing that he was ready for another fight. Syaoran was now in a fight position that looked similar to that of the ones used seconds before a Boxing match started. Neither one of them moved, they just stared.

Then Sakura, who was being dragged by Tea, appeared in the room. Syaoran saw Sakura's eyes went wide with worry as she spotted the mindless Yugi. Syaoran decided that now wasn't the time for a fight, he ran out of the room with a puzzled Yami staring behind him.

As soon as Yugi saw Sakura's face, he's whole face seemed to light in joy. His eyes were filled with purple joy once again and his old smile was back. Tea could have sworn she saw sparks in his eyes. Yugi and Sakura soon were making their way out of the apartment hand in hand.

Tea saddened at the sight, but she was also glad that Yugi was no longer a mindless robot. She could hear Joey saying stuff to Yami about that Li kid ("How dare he come in here and try to beat Yugi up?") but she wasn't interested in the conversation. Instead, she was more interested in staring at the doorway where she last saw Yugi.

"Sakura, it's so good to see you again. And it's even better that you are talking to me again!" Yugi said happily in one breath. Sakura smiled, which set Yugi's heart leaping, and spoke.

"Hey I wasn't the one that left. You left me at the movie theatre; I thought you never wanted to see me because I'm different and weird. You know the whole tornado and stuff." Sakura said without any anger in her tone. She was too happy at the fact that she was speaking to Yugi again to be angry. Yugi looked shocked.

          "I didn't think you were weird! I know all about magic and I'm used to it. Look—" He held up his millennium puzzle for her to see. "This is magical item, Yami lives in it. Yami's my dark side. And besides I ran away from you because I couldn't stop the tornado. I thought I was useless and- and I thought you were better off with Li. I saw him helping you! If it wasn't for him, you could've died."

It was so hard for him to speak now. His lips were trembling so hard that he was afraid that if he spoke he'd sound like he was crying. He looked up at Sakura. Sakura had an understanding look with a hint of sorry in it. She smiled a sad smile and said, "Yugi, you can't be good at everything. Nobody is perfect you know. I don't care if you're not able to save me; as long as you're the sweet and nice Yugi I know I will like you."

They continued to stare at each other in a loving way. Silence was all around them. They must've been sitting there staring for a long time because when they stopped their backs were slightly sore and tired. Yugi was the first to speak.

"So…want to go out with me again?" He asked pleadingly and hopefully.

Sakura had to take a second to think about this. She spoke in an uncomfortable voice…

"On one condition..."

"What?" he asked suspiciously.

"Don't wear you're suit."

"Oh. Ha-ha. Don't worry that suit was torn up from the last date."

Sakura gave a sigh of relief. She smiled at the thought of her and Yugi having a normal date, with NORMAL cloth on.

-KiokoCat ©2002,November,2002@330