Akiko & Amaya: Hey everybody! We're back!

Amaya: Sorry for the long update....^_^'

Akiko: Yeah, and from now on, we're gonna use our nicknames instead on fanfic. Teehee!^^

Amaya: Yup! So I'm the former Ann.

Akiko: I'm not gonna change our names in the previous chappies cause it's just hard work, oh well. ^^

Amaya: Oh yeeah, what took you so long typing our this chapter anyway, huh?

Akiko Amaya & Akiko: We just LOVE writing. Have fun reading!

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Chapter nine: A Birthday and Surprises

A series of chills ran down Sakura's spine. Luckily, Tomoyo said, "Sakura, come over this way. Let's watch this movie "What a Girl Wants". We know that you wanted to watch this movie, so we rented it!"

Sakura couldn't believe it, they were going to watch the movie "What a Girl Wants". It's about a girl, Daphne, who's father is in Britain. She travels there to find him, but when she finds him, he's a boring old business man. And she changes him. (Ann: It's such a good movie! *sniff* ^.^)

As Sakura sat down on the couch, Syaoran sits down next to her and brushed her fair behind her ear gently. Sakura really wanted to scoot over, but there wasn't any room.

'Damn it!' Sakura thought to herself. Throughout half of the movie, Syaoran kept whispering in her ear. Finally Sakura couldn't stand it any longer; she was practically missing the movie that she wanted to see so badly. Sakura turned to glare at him, but that's when she noticed the beautiful brown shade (amber) of his eyes, and she didn't feel like glaring at him any more. The curiosity in his eyes was very clear. Syaoran had stopped whispering to think about what she was doing.

'What am I doing?!' she thought. Quickly, she turned away to look at the TV screen instead.

'Weird!' Syaoran thought. 'Maybe I should stop.' There was the sound of the door clicking open and then shutting close. Touya walked in; seeing Syaoran sitting next to Sakura, he went and sat between them.

"Happy birthday, Sakura," Touya whispered to his little sister so he wouldn't disturb anyone who was watching the movie.

"Thanks Touya," Sakura whispered back. Touya smiled, happy for his sister because she was turning eighteen. (Li: Touya smiling? You never really see him doing that! ^.^)

KNOCK KNOCK

"I'll get it," Touya said, getting up from his seat reluctantly, almost having forgotten about Syaoran. He opened and door. "Umi!?"

"Hi Touya! I came all the way from Hiroshima for my old friend's birthday, it's a surprise. Tell her that it was a prank, I'll be in the that room with the presents, the kitchen right?" Umi said to Touya.

"Yeah, it's the kitchen," he said, and went back to the living room. "It was probably just a stupid kid going around ringing doorbells," Touya told Sakura.

Soon the movie was over and Sakura went into the kitchen and saw her old friend from elementary school. Squealing with delight, she ran over to Umi and hugged her.

"Yo, Sakura! Happy birthday!" Umi greeted.

"I see that you're still a tom-boy, Umi."

"Yep! So 'sup?"

"Nothing much, except for my birthday and all my friends being here!"

Touya just stood there, not understanding what Umi was trying to say. That's why she had to talk regularly with him.

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It was the next day at school. (a/n: Okay, so this is going too fast, but we're trying to finish this story before Akiko is gone forever, she's moved and won't be here next year. *Boohoo*) Everyone was sitting in their desk, except for Zach, who had fallen out of his chair while trying to make people laugh. (obviously they didn't) Mrs. Megari walked out of the supply closet.

"Zack! Get in your seat! No more fooling around! This is important! Okay, class, in two more weeks, we'll be leaving for Tokyo to-" she stopped in mid-sentence.

"TOKYO?!?" The class blurted out as many conversations broke out among them.

"That's the capital!"

"Wow!"

"Awesome!"

"Way cool!"

"Ahem! Yes, we are going to Tokyo, the capital. We're going there for two months so you can experience what real life is like! You'll still have school, night school," the teacher explained. (a/n: Okay, let's just say that this story is taking place in Osaka right now. Doe's that clear it up a bit?)

"Awwwww!"

"You will get jobs and wl'll assign you to an apartment, which is the property of this school, along with a person of you opposite gender to stay with."

"WHAT?!? A BOY?!?" the girls shrieked.

"STAY WITH A GIRL?!?" the boys yelled.

"No, you don't have to sleep together. We will give you money and so both of you will have to pay for electricity, the rent, food, and other supplies. Split the money for bills equally. The money that you have left over, you may keep."

Cheers rang out in the classroom. A boy named Taka raised his hand.

"Yes, Taka?"

"Can we choose who we will have as our roommate?"

"No, it's random."

"What? No fair!"

"All the boys line up and watch the girls, who will be pulling you names out of a hat. They'll walk to the person who's name is on the paper they pulled out."

One by one, the girls pulled names out of the hat. Sakura looked at the paper she had just pulled out, it read "Syaoran Li". Sakura let out a big breath and walked over to Syaoran, who would be her roommate for two whole months.

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Akiko: Whew! *wipes forehead* Finally I finished typing this whole thing out!

Amaya: Look at all those reviews!

Akiko: Yeah, special thanks to everyone!

Amaya: Can't wait till Sunday!!! GREAT AMERICA DAY AGAIN!!!

Akiko: What she means by 'again' is that we already went to Great America on Tuesday for a rewards trip at school.

Amaya: Yup! Yup! Yup! And it was sooooo much fun!!!!

Akiko: Yeah! We had too many friends, so we had to split up and meet again at lunch. (But actually, at lunch, we split up again and we went to different restaurants. Teehee!^^)

Amaya: Weee! Weee! Weee! *claps her hand* Okay, I'm okay, calm down. Breath in, breath out.

Akiko: Okay, see ya all in the next chappie!

Amaya: If we can update that is. . . well, you see, Akiko already moved and school's already over, so it's kinda hard for us to write this story.

Akiko: Yep, we have to either email or talk to each other by phone. (It was almost long distance. Whew! Thank goodness it wasn't!)

Amaya & Akiko: C'ya! ^^