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Always Together: Chapter 3: One Week:

~~~~~~~~~~IN CLASS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Alright kids!" Mr. Terada clapped his hands. "Time for in-class time to work on your projects! Get into your groups and begin!"

Sakura groaned inwardly as she slowly walked toward Tomoyo, Eriol, and......him.

=At least Tomoyo can't go crazy over clothes here.......=

They began with the poster paper they already had brought, and tried to think of a title.

"How about the School Four?" Eriol suggested. "Since there is the four of us, and it's about school."

"What a great idea Eriol!" Tomoyo immediately began to sketch big letters on the poster.

"And then lets put our names under it.........."

"What a great idea Eriol!" (Tomoyo began to sketch blah blah same as the above)

"And then lets........"

Sakura sighed.

"Oh brother this is gonna be a long, -long- project.."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~AFTER SCHOOL~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Eriol strode over to Syaoran, his hands rested comfortably in his pockets. A little too comfortably, it seemed to Syaoran.

"Well, Tomoyo said that she wants us to go to Sakura's house today and work on the project. So let's go!"

"Huh? No one told me!"

"So? Your point is..?"

".."

"No point see? Let's go!!"

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"Hey Sakura! Let's go to your house today! We all agreed to study there!"

"B-But my onichan-"

"Your onichan is the one I asked first dumb-dumb! He agreed, cause he's at a lecture."

Tomoyo grabbed Sakura's arm, and lugged her forward. But not before skidding to a halt, dragging Sakura back around the building, and giving a huge, obvious wink at Eriol, and then rushing Sakura around the corner.

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Sakura's Room

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"Where's Eriol?" Sakura held up the latest masterpiece Tomoyo had created against her chest, twirling a bit.

"He's waiting in the living room." Tomoyo was about to say "with Syaoran" after that, but decided against it.

"Do you want me to go get him?" Sakura asked her, hanging the outfit back up in the closet.

"OH NO!" Tomoyo clamped her hand over her mouth. "I mean.... no, hehe its okay."

Sakura gave her an uncomfortable look.

"Okay..If you say so.."

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Precisely 5 minutes later, Eriol walked into the house with Syaoran In tow, and got himself comfortable on Sakura's couch.

Syaoran didn't know what to do. This was only his second time in Sakura's house.

The last time was when he had come and try to give her an apology and cookies under the direction of his mother.

The scar from the bruise on his butt -still- hasn't gone away.

He ran his hand over it for good luck.

=Sakura is one strong chic.....=

~~~~~

Sakura stopped twirling, and made a funny face.

Tomoyo didn't even look up and automatically said "Bless you."

"ACHOOO!" Sakura wiped her nose and looked around for a tissue.

"You know me too well Tomoyo. I dink I hab an allergy or somedink."

"Naww~" Tomoyo picked up the dress Sakura dropped. "Didn't you know? If you sneeze for no reason, then someone is thinking of you. Whether its good thoughts or bad!"

The she suddenly began to crinkle her nose, and her mouth opened a little.

""BLESS YO-"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOO!"

Sakura burst out laughing. "Someone's thinking of you -big- time!"

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Eriol looked at his watch again for the umpteenth time, shifting his position on the couch every time. Course we know what's on his mind already....

Then he moved his right leg over to the other side, hanging the left one off the side and checked his watch again

Then he moved his right leg back down and crossed them halfway leaning over and checked his watched again.

Then he spread them out and stretched, resting his arm across the edge, so it looked like there was some girl next to him.

He turned to the non-existent girl, winked, said hi, then checked his watch agai-

"ERIOL IF YOU GLANCE AT THAT FREAKING WATCH ONE MORE TIME, IM GONNA BREAK IT!"

Eriol looked up, blinked once, then began to stare at his watch like it was gold.

"Such a fascinating instrument this is....Yeeeeees, I should study it, ::GASP:: IT MOVED! Gracious such an unusual moving object should be observed and my eyes are seriously hurting because I haven't blinked for like 3 minutes!"

Then he blinked and gave a sigh of relief.

Syaoran rolled his eyes and leaned against the wall.

Then Eriol's annoying watch finally gave off a *beep* and he shot up like there were firecrackers in his pants, zipped to Tomoyo's room and strode in.

He sat himself down on the bed and began to talk about the school's history, how it was founded, who founded it, how much money it was, how much money they had in debt, how it was so freaking annoying how they were still paying for it although it had been like 18 years, and so on and so forth.

Tomoyo was snoring, and Sakura was doing the chicken bob.

You could tell Eriol's lecture was fascinating couldn't you?

~~~~~

Syaoran glanced around the living room, and settled himself on the couch where Eriol had been, and stood straight up again.

The seat was warm.

Veeeery warm.

He moved himself to an easy chair and sat down. His eyes began to travel and his thoughts wandered. Suddenly he felt his butt squirming, and he wasn't telling it to.

Jumping up for the second time, he turned to see the most beautiful cat he ever saw. Her eyes were a bright emerald green, and her fur almost glowing it was so white. She was ferociously hissing at him, lashing that pretty tail, wrinkling the tiny face. It was just a kitten.

He couldn't help himself; he picked it up, much to the tiny thing's discomfort, and snuggled her to his cheek.

This was very un-Syaoran-like.

But he had a real weakness for cats. Especially really pretty white ones that had the same eye color as Sakura. Settling himself again on the easy- chair, he began to scratch the kitten behind the ears, causing it to snap out of its fit, and purr softly.

Syaoran grinned one heck-uva grin.

~~~~~

::YAAAWN:: "K, I think we got the history down pat. We just need to tell Syaoran about everything, and we're all set!" Tomoyo got up and headed for the door. "I'll go get a cup of water, I'm thirsty~"

After she walked out, Eriol got up to go to the bathroom.

Sakura just kinda sat there twiddling her thumbs, and decided to go check on the little kitten she had found yesterday.

Getting up and walking into the hallway, she heard someone chuckling. Peeking around the corner, she saw Syaoran's profile and he was rubbing the cat. Sakura couldn't help but smile, Syaoran's expression was so relaxed and happy.

Suddenly she stopped. Why was Syaoran here anyway?! What was he doing with -her- cat?! Did he get permission? Nooo~

Sakura stomped out, gave Syaoran a familiar glare, grabbed the cat, swiveled around, and stomped back to her room, but not before yelling at him for being in the house and touching one's property, and slamming the door.

She sat down and began to smooth the kitten's hair, and rubbed it beneath its ears as it purred.

"How can anyone resist you, you seducer!" Sakura teased as she buried her nose into the silky fur.

Sakura closed her eyes, absent mindedly stroking, but her mind wandering.

Had she really been that mean when she took the cat away? Was it that bad? Why was she really mad at him anyway?

"Oh yea."

Her stroking picked up it's pace.

Then it slowed again.

She really could have been nicer. He -was- part of her group. They -did- need to get the project done, and he had every right to come here,

And pet the cat.

All he did was pet that cat!

Sakura sighed. She knew it when her angel defeated that little devil. She knew she had definitely over-reacted.

She went back out of her room and leaned on the wall. "Um, Syaoran?"

He was still sitting on the chair, his head leaning back with his eyes closed. They opened. "Yea?"

"Um.... ::Cough:: Do you want some....um.....water? It's kinda hot in here and, uh, yea there's some water in the kitchen."

Syaoran's eyes flashed with distrust, but he looked at Sakura and saw her as she nervously swallowed her saliva. She was definitely not used to this.

He smiled, thanked her, and followed her stiff walk to the kitchen.

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^ ^ She's faaaalling for hiiiiim!~ ~ Please review! I dunno if Syaoran really likes cats in the series, if he doesn't, then this has a tad bit of OCC-ness. Hehe Hope you liked it! Till next time~