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WINTER VACATION, HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU sooooo much to everyone who reviewed! I'm so glad some ppl read my pre/post notes (even tho sumtimes they're just blabbering…^__^;;) and helped me out with the -kun, -chan thing (I actually used it right when Eriol was giving Sakura a little 'talk'…lol…) yah, as u probably noticed, the rating is going up to PG-13 cuz…well, read and it'll be obvious ^.^… let's just say it'll get a little dirty from here (no…not like that, u perverted ppl!!!… but then again, who doesn't like *cough**cough* a little …humor?…) The last chap was kinda slow so hope u beared with me cuz this one is so much betta … and yes I know I'm a sloooooooow updater :P (live with it)…
(does everyone really want Syaoran to hang Eriol on a tree?!)
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*…* thoughts
Disclaimer: don't even THINK about suing me cuz I don't own anything…nothing…zero…nada…zip…get the point? CLAMP owns everything *sob*
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When Dares Go Wrong…
The Plan…
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"My dear descendent… this party is only beginning…"
…and then as if on cue, a sudden shrill scream came from the kitchen,
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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"Ohhhh nooooooooooo…" Syaoran's eyes widened as all, if any, hopes buried deep in his heart of the party actually turning out well distinguished completely. "Noooo… they wouldn't have…" He muttered darkly as another scream, this time more desperate and urgent, reached the dark hallways.
"Oh SHIT!!!! They would have!" The message finally sank in for Syaoran and he dashed toward the kitchen, already guessing who had started the fire. He came to a sudden halt when he reached the opening of the room, dumfounded. There seemed to be nothing wrong, no fire, only Sakura, Tomoyo, and Yamazaki smiling innocently, a little too innocently, at him. Syaoran narrowed his eyes and saw the two figures trying to escape out the sliding door leading to the deck. "RUBY MOON!!!!!!!!! SPINEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" His eyes were glowing as Sakura, Tomoyo, and Yamazaki all started to move away, still smiling, now showing very visible signs of nervousness.
"Ok, WHAT HAPPENED???!!!" Syaoran gave up trying to be reasonable and glared at everyone, except… Sakura… he was afraid that if he even glanced at her and those beautiful emerald eyes, he'll do something extremely stupid…
Sakura, Tomoyo, and Yamazaki simply pointed at some burnt matches lying on the ground and then at Ruby Moon and Spinel, whose faces were of a suspiciously smocked color (almost as if something had blown up right in their faces… ).
"WHAT? How were we supposed to know that those stick things make fire when you strike them on that other thingie… but I have to admit, that fire was really pretty…" Ruby Moon's face turned all dreamy like as Spinel suddenly jerked his small head toward her.
"What do you mean 'we' ???'"
"Hellooo?????!!! Spinel, you were the one who had the idea!"
"Had not!"
"Had too!"
"Had not!"
"Had too!"
"Had- hahahahahahaha…" In the process of arguing, Spinel suddenly burst out in fits of laughter and pointed to Ruby Moon's head.
"What is so funny!??" She exclaimed, frustrated.
The little cat like creature chocked and coughed before finally sputtering out, "you-your-your head is on fire!!!!!"
"Uhhh…Spinel? so is yours…"
While they were busy arguing, both hadn't noticed the tiny sparks on top of their heads that had rekindled themselves into flying flames.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Syaoran, Sakura, Tomoyo, and Yamazaki all sweat dropped at the same time. "I was wondering how long it would take for them to figure that out…" Sakura sighed, whispering. The others all nodded and shook their heads, all except Syaoran, who was blushing at Sakura's simple cuteness.
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"Thank you, god…" Syaoran held his hands up in a praying motion. For the past half an hour, to his surprise, nothing had broken, fallen, spilled, smashed, caught on fire, or got killed. He laid back onto the leather sofa and closed his eyes, feeling the desperate urge to sleep. And the party had only started for 45 min… and had about 5 more hours to go… just great…
*SMASH* *CRASH* *BREAK*
"PUDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Syaoran moaned as he heard the welcoming sounds of a glass breaking and objects falling, as well as Kero's discovery of his refrigerator. "Yeah, so much for that…" He muttered, stomping toward the living room. What he saw shocked him and his mouth dropped open, wondering whether this was truly the living room that had once been part of his house.
Shards of glass lay broken everywhere, and to Syaoran's horror, were pieces of his mother's favorite glass vase that had been knocked off the coffee table. An expensive grandfather clock had toppled over and fallen right on top of Yamazaki, who was currently sprawled under it in a very disturbing position. A real pot of bamboo had also been knocked down, along with an ancient Chinese statue, small ornaments, scrolls that had once been hanging on the walls, and about a thousand other costly objects. Syaoran looked around, with a horrified expression plastered on his face, and quickly spotted the cause.
"ERIOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop chasing Tomoyo and trying to MAKE OUT with her!!!! DAMMIT!!! If you REALLY want her that much, I'll reserve a damn bedroom upstairs for both of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Everyone and everything froze and there was a long gap of silence before a voice suddenly piped up.
"uhh… anyone wanna watch a movie????" Sakura asked, in a nervous tone, as she watched smoke come out of Syaoran's ears.
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"Ok, nothing can happen now, right?" Syaoran pondered on that question as he made himself comfortable, or tried to, with Eriol smirking at him from the other end of the sofa. *Thank god there's a nice little space between us… or else my hands would have been around his neck long before now…* Syaoran watched as Tomoyo sat down next to Eriol and turned his head away, disgusted, when Eriol started to flirt with her, again. *At least he hasn't decided to continue in his usual plan of humiliating me… but…* His suspicions were soon confirmed when an innocent Sakura decided to joined them and a very suspicious Tomoyo waved her over to sit down in the space between her and Syaoran. *Wait a sec… if Sakura sits next to Tomoyo… then she's also going to be sitting next to…*
Sakura plopped right down next to him as he groaned.
*…me…*
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Syaoran Li was nervous. Very nervous. As could be easily interpreted from his face that currently looked like an over-ripe tomato. Nice color, huh? *Why, why, WHY ME????????* Syaoran wondered. He was squished against Sakura and was close enough to kiss her… if he had wanted to. Of course he wanted to do so, it was his only wish in life, but he knew that he would be rejected. After all, why would a beautiful, friendly, caring, angelic girl like Sakura want to kiss a stupid guy like him? But despite those disturbing thoughts, Syaoran enjoyed smelling the natural fragrance coming from her that too often had left him dreamy eyed. Suddenly, he jerked forward and realized something as his eyes narrowed. "Eriol, isn't there anymore space over by your side?" He asked inquiringly.
Of course there was space at Eriol's end of the sofa, in fact, there was a HUGE space. But this was all part of the evil magician's plan. Eriol quickly answered, "sorry my dear descendent, but I'm afraid there really is no more space left here… I guess we've all started to grow quite large…" He then sighed dramatically and looked expectantly at Yamazaki, who was settled to the right of him. "Right, Yamazaki?…" He emphasized the word 'right' hoping that Yamazaki would get the point but the poor boy only looked at him and then at the tremendous amount of space next to him.
"Uhhh… there happens to be a lot-" but Yamazaki was suddenly cut off as Eriol jabbed his elbow into his ribs. He chocked and decided wisely to rephrase his words, feeling as if his whole stomach had been rammed out of him, "uh- I mean… oww… there's no space here, Li, sorry man ….ohhh…" Yamazaki fainted.
"Ummm… is everything alright there?" Syaoran looked both worried and suspicious as he heard Yamazaki's groans. *Sounded like somebody was getting killed…* He furrowed his brow but then decided to let the case rest.
Eriol grinned nervously and muttered, "no problem here, dear descendent, everything's perfect, especially good ol' Yamazaki here…" He chuckled as he patted Yamazaki's unconscious body.
"WILL YOU SHUT UP WITH THE 'DEAR DESCENDENT'!!!!!!!???????????" Syaoran yelled, glaring daggers at Eriol from across the sofa. Tomoyo and Sakura simply giggled.
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*I KNEW IT!!!! THAT BASTARD!!!! THAT ASSHOLE!!!! THAT !@#$%^&!@#$%^&!@#$%^& !!!!!!!!!* Syaoran made a mental note to burn Eriol after hanging him from a tree and maybe chop him into a thousand pieces, if there was time.
*How COULD he!!!!* Eriol had deliberately chosen a movie for the whole group to watch and Syaoran knew exactly why. As soon as the word "FRANKENSTEIN" flashed across the gigantic flat screen home theater TV along with imitated lighting sounds booming out of the enhanced speaker systems around the sofa, Sakura had screamed and clung to Syaoran, trembling to death. They had then looked at each other at the same time and immediately pulled apart, both a little reluctant. The two had started blushing like crazy, especially when they realized that Tomoyo had her wonderful V8 with her and was smiling innocently at them (along with a blinking red light). In the past 15 minutes, Syaoran had counted about 10 times that Sakura had ended up huddling close to him. So close that he could… he didn't even want to think about it. It wasn't that Syaoran didn't like Sakura semi hugging him in fear, it was just that every time she got so close, his heart would crack just a little more, knowing that she would never be his. *You don't know how much I love you, Sakura…* Syaoran thought sadly, his head turning to glance at the emerald-eyed girl squished beside him.
At that moment in the movie, the creature created by the mad scientist had come to life and the horrendous monster suddenly sprang up from the cart, its soulless eyes wide open. Seeing this, Sakura uttered a pure and terrified scream and wrapped her arms around Syaoran's neck while pressing her face into his chest. Before he knew it, Syaoran had automatically wrapped his own arms around Sakura, wanting to protect her… and wishing that he could be the one to comfort her and the one that would be there when she needed someone…
"KAAAAWAAAAAAII!!!!!!!!" Syaoran quickly removed his arms off Sakura and blushed like hell while Tomoyo, once again, invaded with the 'devil's minion'. She sighed, a dreamy look spreading over her face, as Sakura and Syaoran sweat dropped, "Now what should I call this tape?… 'The Sweetest Thing'?… nah, too mushy… 'The Cutest Couple'?… nope, everyone already knows that…"
"TOMOYO!" Sakura tried to glare at her best friend while her face heated over.
"GOT IT!!!! I'll call this 'Sakura and Syaoran's first hug' … perfect!" Tomoyo smiled warmly at the two whose mouths was hanging open.
"TOMOYO!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Oh… and by the way … I'll be expecting 'Sakura and Syaoran's first kiss' soon as well, you know…" Tomoyo grinned even more as Sakura and Syaoran's eyes popped out and their faces turned even redder than they were before… which is quite hard to imagine…
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*Now what did she mean by "I'll be expecting "Sakura and Syaoran's first kiss' soon…"? How does she know when we're gonna kiss…* That was the thought lingering in both Syaoran and Sakura's minds at that moment as Yamazaki started telling his usual lies to everyone that would listen. In the mean time, Eriol was trying to put his hand on Tomoyo's thigh but she kept pushing him away, giggling. Finally, he managed to crawl his hand up her leg, an inch at a time, in a very seductive way. Despite herself, Tomoyo moaned when his hand reached its destination, somewhere a little higher than her thigh.
"Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh…"
This was, unfortunately, at bad timing, for Yamazaki was in the middle of explaining the origin of parties. "WHAT? Tomoyo?!" Sakura gazed at friend in confusion. "Even I didn't believe that!"
Tomoyo cocked an eyebrow and asked cautiously, "believe what?"
"That parties such as these were once part of an ancient Egyptian tradition during which they would perform the chicken dance as a ritual, my dear…" Eriol grinned, deciding that putting his hands up Tomoyo's leg was a very good idea indeed.
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"Tomoyo honey… mind talking in private for a minute?…" Eriol's voice was loaded with sweetness that made Syaoran shudder uncontrollably.
"What he's trying to say is, "will you please just do 'it' with me?" " Syaoran muttered sarcastically, earning a glare from the magician and endless laughter from everyone else. Tomoyo blushed and nodded her head, wondering what Eriol could be up to now.
He lead her to another secluded room and whispered, "don't worry, I'm not going to do anything… that's on my agenda for a later time though…" Eriol gave her a flirty smile.
Tomoyo blushed again and faked a glare, "Eriol!"
"Ok ok… what I wanted to ask you was, doesn't something seem to be missing from this party?"
"Umm… not really…" Tomoyo replied quizzically, furrowing her brow. Suddenly her eyes lit up, "unless you mean…"
"Yes Tomoyo darling… yes… all we're missing is a little plan… to get our lovely couple together … in our own way…" Eriol smirked an extremely evil smirk directed toward the two unsuspecting figures sitting in the living room as Tomoyo put her hands up to her cheek and murmured, "yes…so Kawai……"
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"WWWWHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????????"
"Oh c'mon Li, it's just spending 3 minutes in a dark closet! It can't be that bad man! So what do you say??"
"ABSOLUTELY…"
"Really? You agree?!!"
"NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"ABSOLUTELY NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT!!!!!!!! NOT IN MY LIFE!!!! NOT OVER MY DEAD BODY!!!!!!!!!!"
Yamazaki looked defeated and held up his hands, muttering, "Sheesh! Chill… afterall, being in a dark closet with some-"
"NO!!!!!!!!!" Syaoran cut him off with another irritated exclaim, wondering why it was so hard for people to understand when he did not agree to something, such as spending 3 whole minutes in a locked dark closet with someone (but he was really just afraid of being in there with Sakura).
"Now now dear descendent…"
"I'M NOT YOUR DEAR DESCENDENT, DAMMIT HIRRAGIZAWA!!!!!!!!!!!!" Syaoran was fuming by now and even Eriol looked a little disturbed but he quickly composed himself and continued in his evil tone.
"…let's have a little talk…"
"I DON'T WANT TO MAKE OUT WITH YOU!!!!!!!"
Even Eriol looked shocked at that comment and Tomoyo quickly coughed. "Ummm… actually I was just going to negotiate…."
"NO!"
"Just for a minute…"
"NO!"
"It's really important…"
"NO!"
"It concerns-"
"NO!"
"Sakura…"
"N-" Syaoran suddenly shut his mouth and spun to face the dark haired boy while Sakura looked just as puzzled. "What?" He muttered, knowing that this was not going to be a good day… anything that concerned Sakura…
"Now there's my descendent… a very good boy indeed… maybe Santa will get you something nice for Christmas-"
"SHUT UP Hirragizawa! If you have to talk, then we'll talk!" Syaoran violently yanked Eriol into the bathroom and locked it.
Eriol mockingly widened his eyes and feigned a shocked expression. "Dear descendent! I never knew you were like this!!!"
Syaoran, knowing the magician's perverted mind all too well, held up a fist and threatened, "talk or get a sandwich… you choose… and if you're lucky, I might even add some peanut butter and jelly to the sandwich…"
"My…I'm truly scared now… but what I'm wondering is what you would be saying after I tell everyone about the lovely picture of Sakura that you place on your nightstand in your bedroom… dear descendent…"
Syaoran's face turned pale and he slowly dropped his fist, the blood draining out of his body. "H-How did you-"
"Oh, I know a lot of things…" Eriol gave him a chillingly devilish smile, as Syaoran interpreted it.
"FINE! I agree… "
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WHEW… that was a lot… but it's probably cuz I elaborate too much, people always tell me I'm too detailed of a writer but then they say that it allows them to imagine the story more… so I end up getting mixed comments … if you think I should cut down on some stuff, just tell me…that's the point of reviews!!! Next chappie is gonna be about the closet and all the 'mysterious' things people do in there!!! HOHOHOHO… can't wait!!!(guess whose gonna be stuck in the closet with Syaoran!! You'll never guess… seriously…)
I wish I could've left Syaoran and Sakura hugging there forever but I couldn't… *sniff*… what a sweet couple…
(by the way, reason I chose Frankenstein is cuz we're reading the damn book in English… it doesn't making any sense at all… stupid learning curriculums these days… and as for why Syaoran keeps a pic of Sakura in his bedroom… *cough* figure it out ppl, it ain't that hard…)
MERRY X-MAS EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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