AN: Hey everyone! Thanks so much for your reviews! You love me, you really love me! Wipes away tear I would do one of those 'if you want another chapter, I need at least 5 reviews,' but honestly, I'll put up my chapters anyway even if you didn't like it! In any case, enough of my little nonsense, here's chapter 9 - chapter 9? I'm already on chapter 9? And yes, this chapter was an idea from my best friend who dared me, and I must admit – I had a really really hard time…really hard time writing it. So… on with the story? Turns red

Disclaimer: I do not own CCS, how many times have I said that? Don't you get the picture yet? I don't own it! Stop bothering me!

Always & Forever

"Oho, look at them Eriol! How kawaii!" Tomoyo squealed in the dark. Eriol grinned at his cute little descendent and the emerald-eyed girl as they danced in the moonlight.

"Now if only they weren't so dense to realize that they love one another," Eriol replied to Tomoyo. Tomoyo nodded her head in agreement, her eyes never leaving the two dancing. "You know what I miss?" she asked Eriol. Eriol looked at her and shook his head, hoping that Tomoyo wouldn't get sad and hating the fact she had to miss anything.

"I miss having my camcorder!" Eriol sweatdropped. "Perhaps we should leave them alone?" Eriol suggested dryly and that got Tomoyo to look away.

"Ok, who are you and what have you done with my Eriol?" She asked the man grinning in front of her. "My Eriol would never suggest something like that.he's too evil."

"Like yourself?" Eriol asked her, slightly amused as to how she called him 'her Eriol'. Tomoyo giggled at that softly in the night. "Shhh, you don't want us to get caught, now do you?" He said putting a finger to her lips. She shook her head, smiling extremely sweetly at him.

"Couldn't you do something? Just for the fun of it?" Tomoyo asked him, her sweet smile suddenly turned very evil. Eriol raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"What exactly do you have in mind?" He asked her. She leaned closer to him and whispered into his ear what her plan was. He laughed out loud forgetting that they were suppose to be hiding and Tomoyo quickly pressed her hand over his mouth. They both looked alarmingly over at the couple dancing but they didn't notice anything.

"You must learn to be more quiet, Eriol," Tomoyo told him teasingly as she removed her hand. Eriol grabbed her hand and pulled her closer to him.

"Really? I'm sorry but your plan was just too perfect and I had to laugh," he murmured in her ear. Tomoyo felt herself blush.

"So you'll do it?" She asked him, feeling herself drown in his sapphire eyes that twinkled like the stars.

"I would do anything for you," he replied before he kissed her.

Sakura was the first to stop dancing; both of them had both lost track of time and didn't realize that they were still dancing with each other, not that either one of them minded very much. Syaoran looked at her confused for a moment then realized that she must have wanted to stop, they had been dancing for a while. But Sakura just stopped and it looked like she was listening to something

"Syaoran," she whispered to him, "do you hear that?" she asked him. He focused on listening and at first he heard nothing but the fire crackling, but then he heard it. He looked back at Sakura, who looked frightened. "What do you think it is? I-is-s it a-a-a g-ghost?" she whispered to him. Syaoran looked towards where the sound was coming from.

"Ok, I'm gonna go check out what it is," and started to leave but Sakura grabbed his arm and he looked back at her in surprise, feeling his cheeks go slightly pink.

"Don't leave me here by myself," she told him softly. "If you're going, I'm going. I don't want to be left here alone, what if a ghost came - then what would I do?" she asked him, her voice still soft.

"You don't have to worry, Sakura," Syaoran told her, his voice just as soft as hers and a small smile on his lips. "I'll protect you no matter what." Sakura looked at him for a moment, trying to make sense of what he said as he did the same thing. He looked shocked - he didn't expect to say that either. They held each other's gaze, and finally Sakura smiled.

"Arigatou Syaoran," she told him, not realizing that she was still holding onto his hand.

"If you still don't want to stay alone then you can come with me, but that's only if you want," he told her. He didn't like the idea of leaving her by herself either - but he didn't want her to get hurt if she came with him. She nodded eagerly and Syaoran turned back around and started walking towards the trees. "Be quiet, ok?" he whispered to her, and she nodded.

They both walked silently through the trees. Sakura looked around thinking that everything looked a lot scarier now, but she didn't feel afraid that something might happen to her. She felt safe, she knew that Syaoran would protect her and that's when she noticed that she was still holding onto his hand. He hadn't let go of her hand either, even though he was in front of her - leading her, he still held onto her hand. She turned pink and looked down and decided she wouldn't say anything. Suddenly Syaoran stopped in his tracks causing Sakura to collide into him.

"Umpf," she said as she looked at him. He turned around so he could see her and he had this mischievous smile on his face. Sakura looked at him confused, why would he be smiling at such a time? "Why did you stop? Did you find the thing that was making that noise?" she whispered to him. He nodded to her.

"I think you mean, did I find the people that's making the noise," he whispered to her, still smiling evilly, while Sakura was left even more confused. He saw this and he pulled her closer to him and she felt her eyes widen. Then when she was right next to him, he had his arms around her and told her to crouch down and she did, and then he pointed to a particular tree. Sakura squinted, she couldn't make out what exactly it was; then her eyes widened once more and she felt her mouth drop. Syaoran stared at her, trying his best not to laugh. He knew what was going to happen and he was going to love every single minute of it.

"HOOOOOEEE!" Sakura nearly yelled, standing up and nearly causing Syaoran to fall. The two figures by the tree screamed and jumped back in fright while Sakura stared in disbelief at them and while Syaoran, who was now standing, was laughing his head off.

Tomoyo stared at the two figures in front of her and Eriol. There was a shocked girl with green eyes, and a boy with chocolate brown hair laughing - both of them staring at her and Eriol. Tomoyo felt the blood rise to her cheeks and looked over at Eriol, who seemed to be in just as much shock - which did seem just a bit funny.

"Having fun?" Syaoran said mockingly to Eriol still laughing. Eriol seemed to regain his posture and stared at Syaoran, obviously annoyed. Don't worry my cute little descendent, have your fun now, your time is coming up soon then we'll see who's laughing.Eriol thought.

"Sakura, what are you doing here?" Tomoyo asked, her voice a little shocked. Sakura just stared from Tomoyo to Eriol and from Eriol to Tomoyo. Tomoyo glanced over nervously at Eriol and if she didn't know any better - she'd swore that Eriol's cheeks looked pink.

"Tomoyo!" Sakura gasped. Tomoyo turned redder at the sound of shock and surprise in her voice. "What were you guys doing?" she asked, a clueless look on her face. Syaoran looked at her and raised an eyebrow; she saw and when Tomoyo and Eriol weren't looking, she winked at him.

"What are you doing up?" Tomoyo finally managed to get out, trying her best not to stutter. Syaoran just laughed, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. It was something to see Eriol blush, but to catch him and his just as evil girlfriend making out - that was just too much.

"What are you doing up, Tomoyo?" Sakura asked innocently, her attention on Tomoyo. "I couldn't sleep, you knew that right? So I came outside to get some fresh air, clear my head and think." Sakura felt her cheeks turn a bit pink, remembering what she was thinking of, but she turned her thoughts back to Tomoyo and Eriol. "I left you sleeping, when did you get up? I thought you were really sleepy." She stared at both of them now. "How long have you two been here?" She asked, the innocence still heard in her voice and seen in her eyes.

Tomoyo put her hand behind her back casually and crossed her fingers. "I don't know how long I've been up.I woke up and I didn't see you so I went to find you. I was worried about you Sakura, I wanted to make sure you were ok and everything was alright," Tomoyo started. "I met Eriol while I was looking for you; it turns out he was looking for Syaoran as well." Syaoran grunted and turned away knowing that there was no chance ever that Eriol would ever do something like that for him. She didn't exactly lie.

"Sure. You went looking for Sakura and Eriol came looking for me and you both just happened to be there at the same time?" Syaoran stated as Tomoyo shifted from one foot to the next. Eriol seemed to be emotionless, but they all knew better than that. He was trying his utter best to just remain calm and not turn pinker. "You two seemed really worried about us a few moments ago," Syaoran added in hastily making the two people blush once more.

"Well my cute little descendent, we saw you and Sakura dancing and we figured you were fine. Which reminds me, why were you two dancing in the moonlight so late at night? Especially when Sakura stepped out to clear her head?" Eriol said, trying to counter. This time Syaoran smirked, which seemed weird - it was always the other way around.

"She need to know how to dance for Yukito's party, remember? It would be strange enough knowing that she came from another kingdom, but if she didn't know how to dance - people would start to figure out things," Syaoran said firmly and Eriol couldn't say something to that. Syaoran knew exactly what Eriol was trying to do; he was trying to change the subject of him and Tomoyo to Syaoran and Sakura and trying to embarrass the two of them.

"Uh, anyway.I'm feeling really tired now and sine you're ok now, I'm going back to sleep," Tomoyo said quickly and said goodnight and left as quickly as she could. Eriol said the same thing and soon left leaving Syaoran and Sakura alone once again. They looked at each other and suddenly broke into wicked grins. (AN: Sounds a bit strange coming from them, huh?)

"Well, that was interesting," Sakura said lightly as she turned around and walked back to the fire as Syaoran followed, slightly amused.

"Yes, it most definitely was. Especially the shocked look on your face and the embarrassed looks on their faces." He added. To him, 'interesting' was an understatement. "You did a good job of embarrassing them, I've known Eriol for a long time and this is one of the few times I've actually seen him blush." He complimented her.

"Arigatou," she replied as they both sat down once again side by side next to the fire. "At first I really was shocked; I would never expect this from Tomoyo of all people," she admitted to him; he just nodded. "But I got over it and then I just focused on them, you know - it was so funny seeing them squirm," she said giggling. Syaoran looked up at her in surprise. That's why she winked at me, he thought.

"Wow, you sure had me fooled. I honestly thought you were just innocently asking questions," he said, then smiled. "Good job," He said, complimenting her work again, and this time she just smiled and blushed.

"Yeah.maybe you could learn something huh?" she said, teasing him. "Well, it's just a little bit of payback fo -" Sakura stopped herself from speaking, feeling herself turn incredibly red, realizing what she had said - or what she was about to say. She looked at Syaoran, who just looked at her curiously. "What I mean is, um, Tomoyo used to tease me about - well, she still does." Sakura let her voice trail off, growing redder and redder. "Never mind," she muttered. She had almost spilled about Tomoyo teasing her about Syaoran twice.

"Okay." Syaoran said, eyebrows raised. Then he finally understood; Sakura was probably talking about when Tomoyo teased her about her boyfriend. Syaoran felt a sharp pain go through him, none of them noticed the silence that stretched between them; they were too busy with their own thoughts. Sakura suddenly yawned then smiled shyly.

"Sorry," she said. "I think it's about time I went back to bed." Syaoran nodded, looking back at the tents and grinned once again.

"Do you think they're actually back in their tents?" he asked her. She looked at the tents as well then looked back at Syaoran.

"Nah, I don't think they're going to try and meet up again unless they want us to find them again," she commented. She got up and started walking back to the tent when she stopped and turned around, staring at him. He looked up at her. "Arigatou Syaoran," she said softly.

"For what?" he asked, confused.

"For tonight," she replied. "I came out tonight not feeling so great and you helped cheer me up. Plus you taught me how to curtsey and dance; and how could I possibly forget how much fun I had teasing Eriol and Tomoyo. So that you, it was fun," she said, feeling quite shy. Syaoran shook his head.

"I didn't do anything," he told her, then he shrugged. "But hey, you're welcome. It was fun, thanks for the company. We should do this again sometime." She smiled and nodded.

"Good night Syaoran," she told him and turned and walked back inside her tent.

"Good night," he whispered to her, his eyes still on the tent. Who am I fooling, how could I possibly have thought there was a way for me to get over her? Come on, admit it - you had lots of fun tonight, more than you have had in a long, long time.he thought. He sighed heavily in defeat. This is great, no matter how much I convince myself it always comes back to the same thing.how hopelessly in love I am with Sakura.

AN: There you have it folks, chapter 9. Now, I ended up giving you 3 chapters, so I think you should at least review. I mean, you don't necessarily have to if you don't want to, but you know I love all reviews. And yes, Tomoyo and Eriol were just making out - nothing more you hentai thinkers out there - come on and get your mind out of the gutter. Yup, so any ideas on what should happen next? Any comments? Any way I should improve on this story? I'd be more than happy to accept any help on this. Thanks!