A Honest Rumor
By: Xiao

Author's Note:
Hah! All you people that thought I, the best (e__x not really) MeiLi author on ff.net, had turned completely S+S? D I DID NOTHING OF THE SORT! HAH! Take that. "A Honest Rumor" is part of "PROJECT MSASS" .. I'm sorry I kept this so long.. but this story can end pretty soon and I figured, "what the hell? they're the fans, they should know." :D

Part of the this is SEMI stolen from "Addicted Sinner" from the story "Break Me, Shake Me" -- I hope you don't mind, Ashley. Smack me if you want me to take that part off this chapter.

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Chapter Five: Just To Make You Shut Up
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"No, it's so perfect! Come on, it'll be fun! What could be better than ruining Syaoran infront of her? Oh, wait.. Konnichi'wa! Gomen-nasai. Is Syaoran there, by any chance?" Meiling said, after taking her cell phone back from Lei, then realizing she was arguing when Sakura had picked up. Lei grunted, and crossed her arms, waiting for her to finish.

"Yeah, hold on. SYAORAN-BAKA, COME HERE!" Sakura screamed, placing her hand against the phone so not to destroy Meiling's eardrum (aw, how nice of her).

"I'm sorry, Lei, can't pass up the possibilities of this. Pay back, I guess, for what Syaoran puts me through." She kissed him on the cheek while waiting for Syaoran to pick up. He sighed, and set his hand in hers again and began to walk with the girl, while she began to speak on the phone.

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Syaoran blushed dark red. "NO. What are you talking about?" He said, shoving Sakura away, who was now trying to listen on Syaoran and Meiling's conversation. He glared at the girl, who crossed her arms and grunted. "Didn't do anything.. WHAT THE HELL? I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS, MEILING!" Sakura stared.

"Go away!" He put his hand against the phone and shoved Sakura up the stairs.

"You can't tell me what to do, you jerk!" She hissed back, and smacked him, causing him to drop the phone. There was a faint giggle coming from the phone, no doubt from Meiling.

"YOU -- WILL -- DIE!" He said, chasing Sakura up the stairs and tacking her, then dragging her back down, while she continued to scream some foul words at the top of her lungs and try to squirm away from Syaoran. He set her down and walked into the kitchen and began to rummage through everything before grabbing something and walked back into the living room before being tackled and pinned.

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"He dropped the phone." Meiling stated, handing the cell phone to Lei, who held it to his ear, listening to the two of them scream. He laughed, while Meiling took the phone back and began to listen again.

"Don't you find it a bit immature?" He said. She paused in her walking, and looked up at him and shook her head, smiling. No doubt finding this just to be a form of entertainment, which was always fine. And anyway, Syaoran? Immature? There was no mix. "If I went and chased you around the house and beat you with pillows, and all the tackling, would you consider me immature?"

"No. They're being playfully stupid." She paused. "They like each other, they're just not smart enough to admit it. If you were to do the same thing I'd consider it just being playful."

"Ah, I see."

She laughed, listening to Sakura and Syaoran begin to scream again and the thuds against the ground every few minutes. "God, they're so stupid."

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Sakura got up, letting Syaoran stand and then ran to the phone, hanging it up before Syaoran tackled her from behind, causing her to scream. Not just any scream, mind you. Sakura was screaming from pain, this time.

"You jerk!" She whimpered, shoving him off of herself and then pulling her leg to her chest, which was now scraped and bleeding. His eyes widened, proving he actually had a heart, and got up and quickened his pace to the kitchen, finding the first aid kit, and roaming through it. He came back and sat down next to her. "Hey, what the hell are you--" He pressed a dampened rag to her knee, which was the part of her that was bleeding. She quickly shut up, realizing that he was going to clean it up for it. Better than her, anyway, considering the sight of blood made her a bit dizzy..

He continued to clean the cut, and then placed a band aid over it, and then helped her to her feet. "Er.. Thanks.." She said, blushing. He shook his head and then began his trip back up the stairs toward Sakura's bedroom and then sat down at her desk and waited for her.

Sakura grabbed onto the railing and began to help herself up, with a little limp in her leg. She whimpered, obviously just not realizing what it was like to get hurt (Sakura didn't tend to get herself hurt very often). She sighed, whimpered, and began to take another step before slipping and falling all the way back down the stairs.

"GOD DAMNIT!" She cursed. Syaoran walked out of her room and back down the stairs, looking at Sakura who was now red from anger and frustration. He couldn't help but laugh lightly at how frustrated she was getting. She bit her bottom lip lightly, trying to stop herself from yelling at Syaoran. He laughed a little longer, and then walked the rest of the way down the stairs and set down next to her, so that they were now eye level.

"God, calm down, Sakura." He said, looking at her, while she was nearly to tears, and clenching her fists at her side.

"CALM DOWN? SYAORAN LI IF YOU JUST DIDN'T START THIS LITTLE GAME WITH ME, OR WAR AS YOU PUT, AND THEN TACKLE ME FROM BEHIND I WOULD NOT BE IN THIS POSITION. GODDAMNIT, IF YOU NEVER CAME TO HONG KONG, WE WOULDN'T OF HAD TO BEEN PARTNERS!" She was now turning redder from screaming. "IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, AND BECAUSE OF IT I GOT HURT AND THEN--" Her eyes widened as she realized that Syaoran was kissing her? The red color was now draining from her face. He had leaned in and pressed his lips against her own. He pulled away a second later and smirked lightly, as if he had won, but blushing scarlet at the same time.

Sakura stared at him, once again bringing her complexion to a shade of pink. She gasped, her eyes wide. "HOEEEEEEEEE?!?!" She screamed, finally, standing up.

"Just to make you shut up." He muttered, loud enough for her to hear. She continued to stare at him, then pulled him up and then began to shove him to the door, then pushing him completely outside, causing him to stumble then fall in the grass.

"GET OUT!" She screamed, slamming the door, and then turning and leaning her back against the front door. Had he REALLY just kissed her?!

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'WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING, SYAORAN?!' Syaoran screamed at him, pulling himself to his feet, and then whipping the grass from himself. 'DID YOU REALLY JUST KISS HER? OH MY GOD, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!'

He shook her head, trying to calm himself down and then began to walk, shoving his hands in his pockets, and staring down at his feet. "And you said 'just to make you shut up?' Goddamn, you're an idiot, aren't you?" He said, already deep in his own thoughts, and then SLAM he ran into a Sakura tree. He fell backwards and his eyes widened, realizing how he was acting so stupid all of the sudden. 'First you kiss her, then make up a fucked up excuse, then you run into a tree--'

There was a girl's laughing coming from the swing set. He looked over there to find his raven haired cousin sitting here, laughing, her cheeks pink from it. He shot her a glare and flipped her off, while she did sign language for "I love you" and stood up. "YOU DUMBASS!" She said, laughing again.