And So Begins the Friction

Summary: Touya hates Nakuru but Nakuru loves Touya. Sakura and Tomoyo decided to play matchmakers dragging their boyfriends in the picture. Invitation to festivals, new restaurants and what so ever includes both of them alone at a point in time. Will they ever get together....

AN: Sori 4 the long update but bear with me. In this chapter Nakuru befriends Tai in a good way and Touya still has a total bad feeling and… well you will know what will happen in the story. And no this will not be the last chapter. It will probably be ten or twelve chapters long.

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The auburn headed girl dropped the pencil onto the desk as she got up. Exhaustedly she huffed, collapsing on her bed. Eyes closed. Relaxing with silence to fill her ears. Or silence would be able to fill her ears if a certain clow guardian would quit yelling and cheering himself on about his video game.

"Oh yeah! I'm so good! You're toast for sure! Take that! Grrr! Oh Yeah!" He cheered himself on. He was totally in a trance with the screen that he cease to hear Sakura's yelling. She beat the bed with clenched fists for support to stand up and strangle the little guardian.

"KERO HOW MANY TIMES MUST I TELL YOU TO KEEP SHUT IT!!!" Kero paused the game quickly, finally hearing his mistress and turned around. His eyes widened seeing by an unpleasant scene. Danger was approaching him and it wasn't any sort of fatal one, no. Just a hurtful and painful one. He cried for help as he jumped up to dodge his mistress' attack.

Sakura fell onto the floor but quickly targeted the flying Kero with her anger-filled emerald orbs. She made a hasty jump to cage onto him, her efforts prove futile. And so on, she went on pouncing onto the cheating-punishment-by-flying-away guardian. Never once noticing the racket they're making, okay maybe a bit.

The door slowly creaked opened which went overlooked by the loud-trouble makers. The black-headed brother's sweat dropped supported with a hypocritic smile from his silver-haired friend.

"Maybe we should just leave them to their fun." The hypocrite suggested, grinning trying to light up he mood, in a good way not in a totally wild way like the said-two thrashing about the quarters.

His friend stared oddly at his friend then directed his gaze towards the situation. Sakura had just caught Kero and was currently have a wrestling match with him with high attempts of strangling him. He raised his index finger to guide his peculiar friend. "You. Call that. FUN. Yukito I think you been living in a totally different world cause in my book this is more of a fight than having fun."

"Hai. Demo they are not intentionally killing each other right?" Yukito retorted. Touya snorted, folding his arms and leaning against the door frame. "Think again." Both older teens averted their gaze, awaiting for the noisy duo to finish up .

~~~~~The Other Side~~~~~

The brunette crouched stealthily through the hallways. Her hand above her eyes, scanning the area for something, or someone, I don't know go figure. Standing up, strains of her hair were released from the ponytail behind, framing her face and some even disturbing her eyesight. She paused and wrinkled her nose, obviously annoyed but a cute sight to behold. She tried to blow her hair up, she did not succeed. Reluctantly she used her delicate finger to push them behind her ears.

Glancing around the possible areas that could be seen, she wondered where was it, he or her.(Go figure) "Mou!" She cried out and pouted ever so cute once again. She placed her hand on her hip, parting her leg from the other for proper support.

The telephone rang, diverting her attention to it. She made an attempt to answer it. "Konichiwa!" She answered in her genki way.

"Hello? Who is this?" Nakuru pouted at the phone from a distance, annoyed thinking the receiver was the person. Shouldn't the called person ask that question?

"Hello I think I should be asking you that. WHO are you?" Emphasizing the word 'who'. She could just imagine his sweat dropping at her sudden sarcasm.

"Gomen. Name's Tai. I'm looking for Nakuru demo if she's not in. Never Mind."

"Baaaakaaa!" Nakuru named him before he could hang up. Definitely not in the mood to say 'wait!'. " You called to ask but can't even recognize my voice. Ba~ka!"

"Eh? Nakuru?" Tai replied puzzled you could tell by his questioning tone. Nakuru didn't resist the urge to roll her eyes. What an idiot.

"Duh? The one and only who even bother talking to an idiot." Announcing herself, not helping but thinking that his stupidity was leading this conversation to comedy. As much as she tried, her efforts to suppress her laughter were futile.

"Oie who's a baka? I just didn't recognized you with that tone. It sounded like you had a rough day." Nakuru once again roll her eyes took as time took its process.

"Well ya! If you absolutely adore making sweet stuff for someone and in the end that someone always tries to runaway that I have been looking for over three hours for a taste. Well ya I think I had a rough day." She though back to the recent events. Then a question popped in her head. "Why did cha call me anyway?"

"Well basically I have nothing to do tonight and my friends are busy so how bout it? We hang out tonight?" He asked as a friend. Nakuru thought.

"Oh could hold for a sec." Before awaiting a reply, she ran to look for her master. She returned while stealing a few gasps of breathes, here and there.

"Man, Nakuru. I been waiting for so long and you said to wait for a sec. Man that's not even close to a minute." Nakuru pouted with her shoulders raised.

"Tai! Why must you complain so much? I was only checking to see if it was ok." She stuck her tongue out even though he couldn't see it.

"So that's it. Why didn't you say before."

"H-e-l-l-o! You complained even before I said anything more than a simple plain hello." She quesed that comment/insult into his head, waving her hand for a bit of an exaggeration.

"Okay, okay I'm wrong. So meet you at your house?" She bit her lip.

"Better not." She addressed. Thinking how dangerous it would be for a human to go anyway near this house. "How bout we meet at Penguin Park!" She stated rather than suggested.

"Alright that's fine with me. Around three?" The brunette raised an eyebrow.. Glancing at the clock she realized that's only about an half an hour's time. Well whatever as long as I'm quick that would be just fine and not peachy.

"Okay ja ne." She placed the receiver back, smiling as she thought back to their conversation. Suddenly one of her many thoughts confused her. "Hey wait a sec." Her features jumbled looking quite puzzled Nakuru. "How did he get my number in the first place.

The phone rang again, breaking her thoughts. "Hello!" she greeted optimistically, hugging the phone to her ear.

"Nakuru just the person I need. You're an expert at taming guardian beasts right? Then minding doing a favor cause I can't seem to concentrate with all the noise his making…" Before the non-stop talking and stressed out Clow mistress could continue, Nakuru shouted at the phone.

"MATTE!!!" One could hear the stressing silence followed by a 'hoe'. The brunette breathed in deeply and exhaled. What is it with people raiding on their complaints on me. Is this day turning out to be bad or what?

"Sakura-chan sorry. I'll be out today and I would be busy till night probably."

"Oh." A streak of interest made its way into her voice. "With who?" The question struck.

"Just a new friend and besides………what's with that sneaky voice of yours?" The guardian countered.

"Just wandering if it's a guy that's all. Curiousity won't hurt me unless I'm a cat." Stating it in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Humph. If you're wandering, he's meeting me at Penguin Park so there won't be problems if he ever comes here." The impatient brunette answered her young friend.

"Yeah okay. I'll leave at that, but I'm warning you to be careful." Nakuru could imagine her friend pointing a finger at her with assurance that there was bound to be something else more than a friendly outing. At this Nakuru couldn't help but scowl even though it seemed that wasn't like her.

"You can be damn irritating sometimes."

"Ah I see some of my brother's instincts have rubbed off on you." Hearing some laughter.

"Haha very funny now good-bye." She slammed the phone down after the comment, pouting at the people who called. She hurried over to her room and slammed the door. What to wear?

She took a brief look at her wardrobe and quickly decided on the tight fitting, white, long sleeve shirt with a combination of a red skirt with the name 'Nakuru' embedded in several jewels at the left corner of the skirt. She threw it across her bed taking a towel entering the shower. (Now I don't wanna go over board)

She came out with a towel wrapped around her body and her hair. Humming a sweet tone. She quickly wore her selected outfit and strolled over to her dresser. She brushed her hair for later braiding. She glanced at the cat-like clock in her room as she finished.

Hmm it takes five minutes to reach the park. She thought as she took her back pack and left the mysterious mansion called home.

~~~~~Kinomoto's House~~~~~

Sakura had just finished tying Kero in a bundle when a knock came at the door. She glanced up, abandoning her murderous looks. "Yo kaijuu, Yukito and I are bout to head to the library okay?" A sneak thought popped up in her devious mind. (I didn't know she had one)

"Hey onii-chan will you be going through Penguin Park?" She acquired, avoiding any hint of a plan in her voice.

"Ya, of course. It's the fastest to the library. Why do you ask?" Think of something Sakura! She urged herself. Sakura made use of her eyes to direct Touya to Kero.

"I need you t get more nylon rope from the convenient store." She could feel Touya giving her the weird stare. Annoyed, she pouted. "Hey I need more for my project cause I already used it to stop this teddy bear from disturbing my peace." Kero, who heard that remark, started to squirm. "Hey I'm not a teddy bear." A muffled voice came.

Sakura just stuffed the bundled-up Kero under the pillow. Touya did the only thing he could do, allow his sweat to drop. "Oh okay, I will. But try to go a little easy with him okay? Ja ne!" Sakura heard footsteps making their way to the door that later slammed shut.

~~~~~Nakuru~~~~~

I happily skipped out of the house with some of the goodies I made in my bag. I wanted to give Tai a little taste of it. I took a quick glance at my watch. Man, I'm gonna be late strolling to the park like this… Oh what the heck! Tai doesn't look like the type to be on time either.

I smiled to myself, strolling down the road while the autumn wind try to undo my braids. I enjoyed the surrounding of flower petals falling and blown away with the flow of the wind. This scenery looks so peaceful, so serene. Ohh I wish I could have this scenery all to myself. I closed my eyes to feel a bit of relaxation. I kept thinking about a certain someone. Too bad I didn't notice my fingers that later drifted to my lips as I pondered the question most people do. When is my first kiss?

I was totally out of touch with reality then that I accidentally bumped into someone. Sadly I was the one who fell back onto the ground. "Itai!" I pouted it as the latter turned around to face me. To my surprise, it was the very person I was thinking about. But I pretended to not notice him since I had my eyes close as I mended my aching butt.

"It hurts you know and I'm only a girl." I cried as I felt my pain fading away.

"Okay I'm sorry already, just stop your whining already." I peeked out of the corner of my eye to see Touya standing in front of me with Yukito beside him. Yukito extended a hand which I accepted though I was a bit disappointed Touya wasn't my helper and showed no interest to.

I grinned as I got up. "So both of you going somewhere?" I was glad that Yukito smiled back and responded to my obvious question.

"Yes, we were about to head to the library for a bit of study." Yukito replied, trying to bring up the spirits of his moody friend. I pouted when Touya didn't even smiled or gave a single snort or grunt or anything when I grinned or when Yukito prompted him to say something.

Guess its up to me. I took out one of my sweet cookie which I baked the afternoon and was going to give Tai a taste of it. Hastily I stuffed it into his mouth. That caught him with surprise.

His first reaction was to spit it out, to my dismay. He continued to spit out more of the taste. "Ptui! That's too sweet!" he exclaimed. Upset that he didn't like my treats, I was more than happy to get a response from him.

I grinned it away as I bend down and stared at him upside-down. It really startled him. "Aah!" he jerked away from me but named my first. "Get away you freak!" I got up to avoid any damage from his sudden reaction. I puffed up my cheeks to show that I'm angry but not that angry.

"What?! What do you mean by freak?!" I pouted out the words. I was dead shock that he didn't apologize. Instead he just crossed his arms and stared weirdly at me.

"Freak as in you're weird and you don't even know that." He flatly stated, trying his best not to make it sound so personal. That's it! It was that moment that I changed into chibi mode.

"I'm not a freak you, you…" I scolded him as I hit his head with my chibi arms, finding it hard to get the right words out. But his head was more hard headed cause he acted like he didn't felt a thing and mechanically turned to face Yukito with a dead face. He raised his thumb at me, most likely directing Yukito to my attention. Note to self remember to keep on hitting with all your chibi effort's worth.

 "How did we meet her again/" He inquired with his silver-haired friend. He laughed the thought away, thinking it was a really funny question. He pushed his glasses up on the bridge of his nose to prevent any falling of them which will result to blurry eyesight if he does.

"Actually it's pretty simply. You paused momentarily and then Nakuru bumped into you, seemingly admiring the scenery, I guess." Yukito recalled all the events in a slow pace, within one breath. I also stopped my punishments and stared at Yukito, long and hard. I could feel his sweat dropping.

"Yo Nakuru!" Everyone turned their attention to the source of the voice. Too bad the black-headed victim didn't seem very pleased at his arrival.

AN: I so sorry that this chappy as good as you all want it to be. I was having a bad case of writer's block that's why, when you read the chappy the good parts mostly come from the ending. Give me a day and it'll be updated. If I don't meet the dateline you have every rite to that I stole Christmas and curse me too!