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Chapter 5 – Our First MeetingWhile waiting for the rain to stop, Sakura had fallen asleep with the blanket wrapped around her. Every once in awhile, Syaoran would look up at her and stare at her. He would turn away when he caught himself starring at her, blushing and look into the small fire that he had made.
'When I get back, I'll make sure to get Eriol back for this,' Syaoran thought as he starred at the fire, still not being able to get her out of his mind.
~*~ At the Li's Home ~*~
"Eriol, are you sure that they are okay out there?" Tomoyo asked as she starred out the window.
"I'm sure. Knowing my cousin, they probably took shelter there at the shed that wasn't too far from where they were," Eriol said as he walked up from behind her.
Tomoyo just starred out the window, wondering if Sakura was okay since she sometimes had a problem with thunder. She was about to turn around when she noticed how close her and Eriol really were. She could feel his breathing on her neck and felt his chest against her back. She didn't know what to do, so she just stood there, enjoying the closeness between them.
'If only I could just wrap my arms around her,' Eriol thought as he looked at her, trying to control himself.
Eriol knew that he liked her, even loved her, but he didn't know how she would react if he told her. He didn't want to tell her and then for her to laugh at him in front of everyone and tell him that he was a joke. Tomoyo has been the first girl that he's ever really cared about and would do anything for her, but he just didn't know how to tell her.
'Before she leaves, I promise to tell her…everything,' Eriol thought as he moved away from her.
"I'm going to go check on them and see if they are alright. I'll just tell Syaoran and Sakura that the doctor wasn't in today," Eriol said as he left.
'Eriol….'
'I know that the elders told me to keep her away from him, but I just can't seem to do that. I want him to be happy, not torn apart because of his duties to his clan,' Yelan thought as she saw how they were using the shed for shelter.
"I still don't like this," said a voice from behind her.
"Meilin, we can't do anything about this. Either we follow what the elders are telling us, or we risk having our clan dishonored by them," Yelan said as she looked at her niece.
"I know, but I'll feel bad for them. I really like Sakura and I see how Syaoran looks at her sometimes," Meilin said as she walked over to Yelan and starred out the window towards the shed.
"Sakura is a nice girl for my son, but we have no choice but to listen to the elders. Now please, Meilin, no more talk about this matter. Just do what I've asked you to do, please," Yelan said as she looked at her.
"Very well, I will not bring up the matter no more," Meilin said as she bowed and walked out.
~*~ At the Shed ~*~
'Clash'
"Hoe!" Sakura said as she sat up from where she was lying and looked out the window in horror.
Syaoran, who was taking a small nap, woke up and looked at Sakura and saw her shaking. He debated on whether or not he should go over there and help her. After a few minutes of thinking about it, he got up and walked over to her, hesitantly putting a hand on her shoulder making her jump in surprise.
"Syaoran," Sakura said as she looked up at him and wrapped her arms around him as she heard the thunder roar again.
Shocked, Syaoran just stood there, not knowing what to do since no one has ever hugged him before, much more or less, a girl. Finally realizing that she was still holding on to him, he knew that he needed to do something.
"Are you scared of the thunder?" Syaoran asked as he tried not to blush as she buried her head in his chest.
"Ye…yes," Sakura stammered as she slowly looked up at him.
Realizing the position that they were in, Sakura quickly let go and wrapped her arms around herself, still shaking.
'Why do I feel so safe and secure when I'm around him?' Sakura thought as she blushed madly and turned to look out the window only to yelp and wrap the blanket closer around her.
Syaoran just stood there, not knowing what to do. He thought about doing a few things to comfort her, but stood against doing them since that is just the way he is. But when he looked back at her, he felt guilty that he couldn't comfort her. Without another thought, he knelt behind her and put his hands on her shoulders, hesitantly.
Sakura was shocked and just sat there as he started to tell her comforting words to try to calm her down.
'I don't know what it is that I'm doing, but for some reason, this just feels right,' Syaoran thought as he looked back down at her a few minutes later and saw that she had fallen asleep again.
He lifted her up in his arms effortlessly and was going to lie her back down when he felt a familiar presence behind him.
"Am I interrupting anything?" said a voice from behind him.
"…"
"Hmm, interesting," Eriol said as he walked over to them and looked at his cousin's eyes.
"Let me guess, the doctor wasn't there when you got there," Syaoran said as he starred back.
"Hehe, how did you know that, Syaoran," Eriol said as he looked around nervously.
Syaoran knew this and glared at him long and hard until Eriol finally walked out and motioned him to come with him while the rain was light.
As they walked, Eriol couldn't help but smile at his cousin and Sakura. He knew that they both liked each other, but he felt that something was going to try to keep them apart somehow.
'Whatever it is, its not going to keep this couple from getting together if I have anything to do with it,' Eriol thought as he looked back at them.
When they got back inside, Eriol noticed how Syaoran had his shirt off and Sakura had a blanket wrapped around her. He then realized that neither of them had brought their shirts and figured that Syaoran must have forgotten about them back in the shed. He smirked when he saw Syaoran blushing, probably remembering that he had forgotten to get down the shirts.
"So, did I miss anything important while I was gone?" Eriol asked, teasing Syaoran.
"…"
"Aww, you're no fun," Eriol said as he walked to Tomoyo's room.
"Even if there was, which there wasn't, I wouldn't tell you even if you were the last person on earth," Syaoran said as he followed him, hoping that Tomoyo wouldn't get the wrong impression like Eriol.
Days passed and it was still raining outside and that limited the training that Syaoran and Eriol needed to do. So, they moved the furniture and practiced in the living room. A few times, Sakura and Tomoyo would come down and watch them as they trained together, using deadly aims and skills to get the better score.
"Why so quiet for cousin?" Eriol asked as they trained with punches.
"…"
"Come on, there has to be something bothering you!" Eriol almost yelled as he punched at him, but he moved.
"Nothing is bothering me, now can you please just drop the subject," Syaoran said as he saw an opening and went for it, but it was blocked.
"Have you been noticing how Meilin is starting to follow you around again?" Eriol asked one day when it was still raining.
"…"
"Well I have begun to notice how she is starting to follow you again, but she hasn't seen you since then, which has been about four years. She is your cousin after all and has feelings. She just probably misses you," Eriol said as he launched an attack, but had it blocked by him.
"…"
"…Have you been noticing how she acts around Sakura now? She never used to act like that before," Eriol said as he looked up at him, stopping as well.
"…"
'Maybe Meilin is the one that is going to try to keep them apart,' Eriol thought as he heard voices coming towards the living room.
"So, what do you think of Syaoran so far?" Tomoyo asked as she and Sakura were walking towards the kitchen.
"I don't know. He can be nice sometimes, but can be so mean and cold," Sakura said as she limped along beside her, her ankle still not fully healed yet to put pressure on it.
"What do you mean?" Tomoyo asked, trying to get the whole thing out of her.
"Well, like when we were stuck up there in the shed, he was a little bit more kinder towards me, but now…its like as if he's gone back to trying to ignore me," Sakura said as she stopped to think about something.
"Whats wrong, Sakura?" Tomoyo asked as she stopped too.
"Nothing, just thinking back to what Meilin had told me when I got back," Sakura said.
"What did she tell you?" Tomoyo asked, wanting to know more about it.
"Don't worry Tomoyo, it wasn't anything important," Sakura said as she started to walk again.
'Hmm, for some reason, I don't believe her,' Tomoyo thought as she jogged to catch up to her.
"I do feel bad for what I'm doing to them, but…I can't go against the elders," thought a girl with two deep black pigtails as she starred out the window.
Well? How is it so far? Is it going slower than my other story? If its not, tell me so I can go slower. Some of these things I don't really know like Yelan's hair, his sister's names, etc. and things like that. I never saw the movies and things like that, just the episodes and there weren't so many of those either. But please tell me what you all think and I'll work on it for the next chapter! Thanks you guys for reviewing! Take care! -Bluepiper