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Always Together Chapter 2:

~~~~~~AT TOMOYO'S HOUSE~~~~~~~~~~~

"Hello Li-kun. Hi Eriol..chan.." Tomoyo tried to hide her blush, and quickly ran to open her door. Eriol just smiled, and jauntily said hi.

Sakura smiled as she watched her friend with fumble with the key upon hearing Eriol's voice. Her eyes, unfortunately wandered over to where Syaoran was standing, who leaning on the wall staring at nothing. Those emerald orbs turned to ice.

Then something tugged at her mind.

**Sakura..he really tried...**

= If he did, then how come I barely noticed it? =

**He really tried**

**he really tried**

= Get away from me! I hate him! Ok Sakura..you hate him..you hate him....=

Sakura looked at Syaoran, her face void of any emotion.

"Hello Li-kun."

Then her face completely changed back to her usual cheery self.

"Good morning Eriol! Come on, shouldn't we go in?" She smiled and walked into the humungous house. Before she went in though, she could see that Syaoran's face had turned ashen gray, and he had immediately hung his head.

= He looks so..alone. Should I try? Should I?=

Then her eyes riveted to her bag to where her cards were, and they hardened along with her heart.

She stalked into the room without saying a word to the figure by the door.

~~TOMOYO"S ABNORMALY LARGE ROOM~~

"Okay! Lets get started! Now what shall we wear when we go up front!?? [AN: I made it so that they get to wear anything at their school, instead of uniform k?] Oh!! Sakura! I just got some GORGEOUS new fabric! It would be PERFECT!! Ohohohoho!!!!~"

Sakura sweatdropped as Tomoyo began to rummage around her veeery large closet.

"Um...Tomoyo? Isn't this suppose to be a project on school?

Tomoyo turned and looked at Sakura.

"Yes..?"

"Well then shouldn't we be working on the project, not clothes?"

Tomoyo looked at Sakura with a blank expression.

"Never mind."

Syaoran managed to snuffle a laugh, with turned out to sound like some kind of snort. Unfortunately Sakura noticed.

"Is something funny?" She looked at him.

"No.."

"Okay, then be quiet."

Syaoran looked at Sakura for a while, his amber eyes flashing, then turned away. Eriol just closed his eyes and shook his head.

"I FOUND IT!!!!"

Tomoyo came racing out of the closet and dumped about 50 pounds of fabric.

"Why don't we just start researching Tomoyo..."

~~~~ABOUT TWO HOURS LATER~~~~~~~~~~~

"Oh! Its already 5:00!!" Sakura jumped up. "I have to go and cook for Onichan! Nooo he's gonna be mad AND hungry. Oh no!! So is Kero!" Sakura groaned and turned to Tomoyo.

"I'm really sorry, but I have to go k? See you guys later!"

Sakura ran out of the door and out the front steps.

After the sound of her hurried steps faded, Eriol leaned back on his chair.

"Well Syaoran, sad that she left?"

Syaoran glares at Eriol.

"What would it matter to you??"

Eriol smirks.

"What would you say to A LOT. Look. Can't you see that you can't just let her do this to you. Talk to her. Maybe she'll change her mi-"

"Don't you think I -tried-?! Can't you even see how hard this really is?!" Syaoran put his hand to his head.

"I mean, it was half a year. Half a year! Isn't that enough torture?! I didn't know she had all the cards already!" He took a deep breath, which thankfully seemed to calm him down. "Oh.. Whatever.."

He got up and walked out of the room. Eriol and Tomoyo could hear the pounding of his feet destroying the stairs.

"Whoa." Eriol turned to Tomoyo. Tomoyo turned to Eriol. "This aint good."

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Sakura hurried out the steps, almost tripping over her own long legs. Skidding around a corner, thinking about two faces, one chubby and one slim, yelling at her about how hungry they were, how they waited for hours and hours and still she had not come, and on and on and on. It was something that you wouldn't want to go through.

Not paying attention, she ran into a huge cardboard box sitting right in the middle of the sidewalk.

This time she really tripped and fell on her hands and feet, like a tunnel over the box.

Her eyes met with identical dazzling green ones.

The owner of those eyes meowed softly, licking her paw daintily, as if a human tripping over her and almost landing on top of her was normal.

Sakura gasped at how beautiful the little thing was. She got up and lifted it to her arms.

"Aww.... You're so cute.... I wonder who left you here?"

She looked around, but all she could see was the passing cars. The sidewalk was empty.

"How 'bout your mom kitty?"

"Meeeeew!"

"Awww~"

Sakura picked up the box, took off her sweater, put it inside, and carefully set the kitten inside on top.

"Let's see if Otousan lets me keep you!" She continued to walk along, slowly now, and again wasn't paying attention to what was in front of her.

She tripped over something else.

But this something else made her stop short.

She stared, her mouth quivering as a tear began to form in her eyes.

A huge white cat was lying on the floor, the side of the beautiful coat was stained with red, as if it didn't belong there it stood out so much.

Sakura knelt down, running her hands over the blood, unbelieving.

Then she noticed something beside the dead cat.

This made her tears flow freely as she collapsed completely.

Three little kittens, Two white, and one black, all lay on the floor.

They would never get up again.

Sakura's heart wrenched as she thought of how much the little kitten was like her.

Another tear dropped on fur as she remembered her mother's beautiful wavy hair. She used to play with it, begging to braid it over and over again.

Sakura slowly picked up the box, and blindly got up. Stumbling her way home, she talked to the kitten all the way, fighting the lump in her throat.

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I rewrote this chappy too~ I'm rewriting all of 'em. XD ::whew:: so tired~ Please review! XD SANK YOU! ^_^