The next morning Ryo was sitting alone in the backyard. It was one of the rare times when he was the only person in the house.  Everyone else had gone out somewhere and Sakura was to be back any minute.  Ryo sat down on the bench that Mia had put there a while ago and thought about yesterday's water war with Sakura. He smiled to himself thinking of the way she had looked with her wet clothes plastered to her, and of their almost kiss. 'Then of course, someone has to come up and demand her attention.' He thought grumpily.  It had been that way for a while now.  It seemed like his friends saw more of his girlfriend than he did. And it really bugged him. 'But not today,' he thought smugly. He knew that Sakura had gone to check out how things were going at her late father's castle and would be back any second.  He also knew that the others had said that they wouldn't be back till later that day. This left a perfect opportunity for him and Sakura to finally get their alone time.

"I'm home," came Sakura's reply as she walked into the empty house.

Ryo smiled to himself and went inside to find her.

"Hey Ryo," she said brightly as she sat down on the love seat. "Where is everyone?" she asked.

Ryo sat down next to her. "They went out; they said they would be back later today."

Sakura shrugged, "Cool," she said as she got up and went into the kitchen. She opened to refrigerator and got out a carton of milk. She then went to the cupboard and got a glass.

"Hey Ryo," she hollered. "Want anything to drink while I'm up?" she asked.

"No thanks," came the soft reply in her ear.

Startled she turned around to find Ryo right behind her grinning.

"Ryo, don't you know that you aren't supposed to sneak up on people?" She scolded good naturedly.

"Yeah, but its so much fun." He said smiling.

"But if I had thought that you were a burglar, I could have hurt you." She said teasing.

Ryo scoffed, 'Please, you couldn't hurt a fly."

Sakura turned to face him with a challenging glint in her golden eyes. "You don't think I can?"

"No" he said crossing his arms.

"Fine, guess I'll just have to prove it to you." She said as she stared a wrestling match.  The two wrestled their way into the living room. Sakura soon ended up being pinned against the wall Ryo's hands on either side of her head with a smug grin on his face.

"Fine, I concede, you win." She said.

"What to take as my prize?" he pretended to think "Oh yes, you have to give a kiss to the winner."

"If I must." She teased as she leaned forward to give Ryo his prize when

BEEP BEEP BEEP…

"Oh No!" Sakura said glancing at her watch. "It's two o'clock! I promised Mia that I would help her with something at her work!" she said breaking away from Ryo's imprisonment.

Ryo face showed his annoyance 'not again!' he thought. 'Even when they aren't here they occupy her attention.' Sakura was about to hurry out the door when she saw Ryo's expression. "Ryo, what's wrong?" she asked concerned.

"Nothing," He replied testily.

"Don't lie to me, I know you well enough to tell when something is wrong." She said walking over to him.

"How can you? Your never around." He said hotly.

"What are you talking about?" Sakura asked confused. "I'm around you right now. And I was with you all yesterday and the day before that."

"But you didn't stay, and now your about to leave again." Ryo yelled his frustration growing.

"I promised Mia that I would help her with something, and she needed my help yesterday also." Sakura said wondering what he was so upset about.

"You see, my friends see more of you than I do." He said.

"That's not true, Ryo" she said indignant. "I see you a lot more than them."

"Really," Ryo asked in mock humility. "When we were doing our training session, you had to leave, yesterday you had to leave, and today when we are finally alone, you have to leave. I thought that you were my girlfriend, not everyone else's."

"Ok, it was you that Yulie called away during the training," Sakura angrily pointed out, "And I am your girlfriend, but that doesn't mean that you get to occupy all of my time."

"Well if I'm going to be such a time monger maybe we shouldn't be going out." Ryo yelled angrily.

Sakura step back as if he had slapped her as tears threatened to spill out of her eyes. "Are you breaking up with me?"

Ryo saw the hurt look in her eyes and was instantly sorry that he had even thought about that, but he was too frustrated and aggravated to let it drop. "Well since I'm just consuming all of your time I guess I am. I'll go find another girl who doesn't think that my friends are more important than me."

"Then I guess I'll find someone who doesn't think that he's the center of the earth!" Sakura retorted her eyes brimming with tears.

"Why don't you go ask Dais to be your boyfriend, I bet he'll be happy!" Ryo said. He instantly he could take back what he just said, because he had struck a tender nerve. Sakura had been really conscious of the fact that Dais still had a thing for her and it bothered her immensely.  She constantly fretted about how he felt about her going out with Ryo. Sakura eyes flashed dangerously as the tears she had been holding back spilled over and ran down her cheeks. "Fine! If that's the way you want it." And with that she stormed out the door.

Ryo ran to the door. "Fine!" he yelled at her having to get the final word in as he turned and strode into the back yard, not noticing the crow that flew away after surveying the fight.