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Rivals or Lovers

Chapter Four

Eriol's and Tomoyo's first date

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It was a lazy Sunday afternoon at the park. Two people are meandering along one of its many trails, having a lively conversation.

"So, Syaoran, have you gotten over the nosebleed yet?" Meiling teased

"Meiling…" he grumbled.

"What? Just asking," she said, stifling a laugh.

"It not funny."

"Maybe not to you. But we had a Kodak moment," she said, giggling.

Syaoran glared at her.

Meiling looked back. "Nani? I wasn't the one was the nosebleed."

"I'm the one with the keys, so remember I can lock you out the house in a second," he threatened.

"Don't worry about it, I can always go to someone else's house."

Syaoran just glared at her, thinking fervently, 'One day, Meiling, one day'

Even with all the Clow Cards captured, danger is still around. And 13 year olds Li Syaoran and Kinomoto Sakura still say they hate each other, but truly and deeply they are in love with each other. Of course, they just won't admit it. Because they are afraid that the other doesn't share their sentiment. And every time they have to say those three words, "I hate you," it's like turning a dagger in their hearts.

But little by little they are going away from being rivals and coming closer and closer to being lovers. What does fate have in store for them? Will they be able to face it? But sometime the bitterest enemies can work together. As always, zettai daijoubu, for where there is love there is hope.

Maybe, just maybe, there is hope for them.

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*Monday morning at Syaoran's house*

Syaoran stretched after he woke, trying to decipher his dream from last night. 'That was a strange dream I had last night... who is that guy? I already know him. Gah, I hate riddles.  I always thought Sakura was the one with the real 'prophetic' dreams.  Then again, I always had a few. Just not a lot. Thank goodness I don't have to train today. I doubt I could concentrate if I tried.'

"Xiao Lang, are you going to school? Or you going to lay in bed all day?" Meiling chirped, coming in.

"I think laying down would do," he joked.

"Just to let you know, you have 15 minutes to get ready."

"I do?! Why you didn't tell me?"

"You a really hard person to wake, but I was just-" before she finished, he was in the bathroom.

"Was that Syaoran-sama?" Wei asked, walking though the hall.

"Hai, I'm going to hate telling him what the time really is and that it was a joke."

*14.9 minutes later*

"Meilin, why you didn't tell me that it was 4:00 when you came in?" Syaoran yelled.

"You never let me finish."

"You could have grabbed me, yelled at me, let me sleep…I thought I was getting Sakura's bad habits."

"You called her Sakura."

"N-nani?"

"I said, 'you called her Sakura.'"  Meiling teased.

"So what, I do that…sometimes…"

"Uh-huh. But I always thought that only female family members…" She moved towards the phone.

"Meiling, I swear if you do that, I could be giving Hong Kong a personal visit soon."

"Yeah, well…" she smiled devilishly.

Syaoran stared at the wall, a glazed look in his eyes as he started mumbling in Chinese. "This girl, oh, she gets on my nerves. One day, Hiiragizawa and her are going to get it…"

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Touya glanced at the clock, and then continued to try and wake up his sister. It's late, come on... "Sakura, wake up. Only a kaijuu can sleep through this…" Touya said, shaking his imouto, "I hate to do this, especially four mornings in a row, but…" He shrugged, and then chucked a bucket of ice-cold water on her.

"O-o-on-nii- c-c-cha-an, why you did that!" Sakura shrieked through chattering teeth, springing up in a second.

"Because I have been trying to wake you up for half an hour. Kaijuu."

"Sakura kaijuu je nai mai! Onii-chan, you are drying my bed off," she said, slapping her brother on his head.

Touya rubbed his head, muttering something as he strolled over to her phone and began dialling.

"Touya, who you are calling?" Fujitaka called from downstairs.

"Guinness book of world records."

"…how come?"

"Sakura, I believe, will brwak a new record: shortest time to get to school. She has three minutes. Wait, make that two new records. The shortest time to get dressed."

Somehow, Sakura took a shower, brushed her teeth, put her clothes on, drunk some orange juice, ate a piece of toast and halfway choked on it as she said good bye to Kero, Touya and her father, and did it all in – under – three minutes.

"And time." Touya said clicking his stop watch, "Hell-o Guinness, we have two new records: shortest time to get to school, and the fastest time to get to dressed. Record holder name? Kinomoto Sakura."

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Sakura burst through the school doors approximately half a minute later, only to be greeted with,

"Late again I see," Syaoran said with a smirk.

"Just shut up…or could you? Is your mouth is on automatic?"

"You know we're not allow to have roller blades on in class."

"Nani? Hoe! I forgot all about them," she said, taking off the skates and trying to leave them outside before-

"Kinomoto-san, you do know that you are tardy, right?" the teacher said, walking in.

"Ano…hai, Maiya-sensei."

The teacher walked over to her, smiling conspiratorially. "You would have got away with it, if I hadn't see you enter the classroom with your roller blades. But next time, my advice is take off you skates."

"What do you know, your skates got you in trouble, that's a first," Syaoran said with a little smirk.

"Oh, be quiet before I burn your mouth out with my Bunsen burner," she threatened sweetly.

"Please, you can barely turn it on."

Sakura grumbled, fiddling with the switch.

"Do you two ever stop arguing?" Tanjiro asked.

Sakura turned to him. "Of course, we stop arguing-"

"-the minute we're in different rooms!" Syaoran finished with a flourish.

"Well, that is true." Minako said

"Well class, today you have to present your projects. First up, we have Yamazaki Takashi, Miharu Chiharu and Kamiya Momiji and Fujimaya Megumi!"

"Hey there today we are doing our project on electricity, like everybody else, what we did was talk to electricity, out of the room, of course, and…" Yamazaki abruptly stopped when Chiharu hit him, mumbling, "Lies, lies, ALL LIES"

"What we are really doing for our project is trying to see how the original components of water-" Chiharu explained.

"-which is one part hydrogen, two parts oxygen-" Momiji cut in.

"No, it's actually two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen." Yamazaki said, his face completely blank and intent.

Chiharu stared at him for a second before coming to her senses. "And class…iie, Yamazaki isn't lying, it's…true…"

"For the first time ever, Yamazaki-kun is telling the truth. Where's a camera when you need one, never mind, Tomoyo-chan is taping everything." Sakura giggled.

 "Um, let get on with the experiment, shall we?" said Megumi, pulling out the group's large, colourful poster.

Sakura took copious notes, so absorbed that she jumped when Syaoran tapped her on the shoulder. "Hey, we're up next."

She nodded, suddenly stiff as a board.

"We are doing our report on conductivity of electricity in certain materials," Minako started.

"We found out that electricity flowed easily through copper, which is why it is used for many electrical devices. Rubber, on the other hand, does not conduct electricity very well, which is why it is used for insulating wires. If you pour enough electricity into rubber, it will start to melt," Sakura said.

"Which will make it very hot, so I feel sorry for you if you touch it." Tanjiro joked, causing a few people in the class to giggle.

"We had found that by using a watts metre, you can test the conductivity of the materials by seeing the amount of resistance it gives to the electrical current, which is measured in units called ohms. Rubber, a good insulator, generates around 10 to the power of 12 ohms per metre, while most metals generate around 1 divided by 10 to the power of 6 ohms per metre, which is very low," Syaoran rattled of as Sakura showed the class the watts metre measurements.

"Arigoto, that was… a… very…good report," the teacher said, slightly dazed.

"Thank you!" they chorused.

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Sakura sat with her lunch, glaring hopelessly at her noodles. "So much homework, and its just lunch," Sakura, said sighing.

"Yeah I know, I want to kill the person who invented it," Meiling said, which probably wasn't an empty threat.

"Oh, c'mon you guys, it's not…that… bad?" Tomoyo said, sputtering to a stop when Meiling and Sakura glared at her.

"Hello, there," Eriol said, kissing Tomoyo on the cheek.

Tomoyo blushed a little. "Hey, Eriol."

"So what's up?" Eriol asked, shifting his weight from one foot to another.

"From what I last heard, the sky," Sakura said jokingly.

"You know what I mean."

"Nothing much, except homework."

"Yeah, that's bad…Tomoyo, can I…can I ask you something, in private?" Eriol looked away, flushing slightly.

"Um, sure."

"I wonder what they're talking about?" Sakura said, watching out of the corner of her eye.

"Maybe Hiiragizawa-kun finally got enough courage to ask her out on a date," Meiling pointed out.

"Oh, it would be so kawaii, maybe I could make a dress for her, oh I have a lot of ideas for it, and I can't forget this, I have to have my camera for it, oh and her hair I have to do her hair too!" Sakura said, doing an almost-scary impression.

"I swear you sounded just liked her, you spend too much time with her."

"Here she comes, she looks so genki!"

"Oh my god, I-I can't believe this," she said in disbelief. Meiling and Sakura nodded supportively, wanting information. "He… asked me… out on a… date!" she squealed.

"Now, we can dress you up, and I promise we won't mess you up, we're going to have Eriol-kun drooling over you!" Sakura said, excited.

"Yeah, we can do your hair, makeup…wait you look great without makeup, we just use lipstick and lip gloss, and your outfit…oh this is going to be exciting!" Meiling said quickly.

"You just have one problem," Tomoyo pointed out.

"What?" Meiling and Sakura said in unison.

"You don't even know when it is," she said with a big, evil smile. Sakura and Meiling sweat dropped.

"Well, when is it?" Sakura asked.

Tomoyo smiled. "Saturday at 6:00."

"Well, meet us at Sakura-chan's house at 3:30 or 4:00, I don't think Syaoran wants a bunch of squealing girls disturbing him. And you know how it is when the two of them are in the same room," Meiling said.

"…yeah, so meet us there," Sakura said, as the bell sounded.

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Touya looked through the door's peephole, sighing in resignation over the decimation of his Saturday afternoon.

"Kaijuu, vos amis avez arrive," he quipped.

"Here, in a language you understand quite well, I AM NOT A MONSTER!" Sakura screamed, slapping her bother upside the head.

"I swear you're one."

"Konbawa, Tomoyo, Meiling. Let's go up to my room!"

Meiling and Sakura paced around Tomoyo, making her highly nervous.

"Okay, Tomoyo-chan, since this is your fist date and all…" Meiling started.

"…with Eriol-kun, we need to fix you up!" Sakura finished

"Sugoi, now all my years dressing up Sakura are catching up with me," Tomoyo mumbled.

"Not really, Tomoyo, that lies in the future," she said picking out a shirt.

"Huh, what does that mean?"

"Oh, nothing."

"Meiling, how about this shirt?" Sakura asked her, holding out the shirt. Someone had gotten it for her as a present, but she had never worn it. The whole 'blue lion on blue shirt' thing had never worked for her, and her favourite number was 1, not the 8 on the back.

 "It's perfect. What about these trousers?" Meiling said, pulling out a pair. Sakura smiled; those were perfect. They were black, with a slight flare. A single rose had been hand-embroidered on the front pocket, and the stem twined around the right led.

 "The perfect outfit, what's next?"

"Hair, now how shall we do it?" Meiling said, looking through some suggestion books.

 "Curls," Sakura suggested.

"Too thick!" Tomoyo interjected, wary of what they might do to her hair.

"Bun?"

"Too much time. Flat iron?"

"Kero broke the flat iron, don't ask." Sakura said

"I know! How about a half ponytail with chopsticks?" Meiling said, clapping her hands.

"Oh, good idea, good idea! I actually have this really cute pair…somewhere…" Sakura started looking around.

~*~

"Aa! Tomoyo-chan you look perfect and its time for you date, go, tell us what Eriol's face looked like when he saw you. Ja," Sakura said, her arms utterly exhausted after an hour of dealing with Tomoyo's mounds of hair.

"Ja ne, wish me luck," Tomoyo said, leaving.

"We already are," Meiling called out as Tomoyo left the house.

*5 minutes later*

"Okay Meiling let's go. Tell Li that 'Operation: First Date' is now activate," Sakura said.

"Okay, and I'll make sure he hurries up."

Syaoran ran stealthily into the park, emitting no squeal of surprise when a hand pulled him in the bushes.

 "Sya-Li, what took you so long, Aya-chan stalking you again?" Sakura asked, still focused on any sign of the two.

"Don't ever mention that name around me again. Actually, I couldn't find my shoes."

"Stupid. Now, we have just two problems."

"Nani?"

"One, what if Eriol senses us, and two, what would I do if someone from school sees us together?"

"One, we just hide our auras really well, or prepare to meet an angry Eriol and Tomoyo. Two, I am NOT saying you're my girlfriend, so we better say it's a coincidence."

"I wouldn't want you as a boyfriend either,"  Sakura thought.

"I guess we're equal on that too," Syaoran said, smiling cheekily.

"Stop reading my mind, or I will put a love note in Aya chan's locker with your name."

"Oh you are a… you lucky I respect you a little. Besides, I didn't actually read your mind. Your face said enough."

Sakura took a deep breath. "Can we just get along for awhile? Just for their date."

Syaoran looked at her for a second before shrugging. "Whatever."

"Oh, look, look! They're there!"

"Baka, duck down before they see us!"

"You look…beautiful, Tomoyo-chan."

"Thank you…you're looking handsome yourself."

"Ano, Tomoyo-chan, I've brought something for you," Eriol said, blushing slightly as he held out a small package.

"How kireii. A small magnolia pendent…how did you know I love…but I don't have anything for you," Tomoyo said, holding the pendent carefully.

Sakura sighed. *Oh that's so kawaii. See Syaoran-kun, that's how you treat a lady. *

*For your information, I treat a lady with respect, so that excludes you. You're always calling me an idiot. You know, Hiiragizawa will be able to sense you talking.*

*Don't worry about it; I'm using a blocking spell. You, on the other hand, are wasting all your energy on a full-blown aura concealment charm. *

*How... you...did... oh never mind. *

"Don't worry about it…I got you a gift because I wanted to, not because I wanted another present."

"You are so sweet."

"Well, shall we continue this date?" Eriol asked politely, walking after a nod from Tomoyo.

"I wish that I could have a boyfriend like that…Eriol is quite the charmer, isn't that right cute little descendent?" she said, teasing him. Syaoran opened his mouth to say something loud, but she covered his mouth with her hand. "Remember, we're undercover."

"Remember, don't ever call me that again," he said, mimicking Sakura.

~*~

Sakura stretched as she sat down in the movie theatre, glaring at the love sick couple in front of them. "I don't see how Tomoyo-chan can do this."

"I don't either…it's boring, watching the same person. At least we got her mini-camera, or the management would think we were trying to bootleg a copy or something. As if, it's a bloody romantic sap fest."

"Kami-sama," Sakura said as she spun around, facing the front of the theatre again.

"Nani? Tell me."

"Sensei, 12:00." Sakura said, barely moving her lips.

"I thought they were supposed to be asleep by now," he joked with a glaring Sakura. "Just joking, I know, I'll just go buy something for the both of us, okay? I'm dying…"

Sakura watched him go, smiling as he looked back once. Turning to the tiny camera, she muttered, "Okay, now all I have to do is hide the camera…here it goes…"

"Konbawa Kinomoto-chan, how are you?" her teacher said across the mostly empty theatre.

"I'm fine, Maiya-sensei. How about you?"

"Fine. You know something, I just saw Li-san walked out of here. Did the two of you put aside your differences and go together on a date?" She asked curiously, not noticing how red Sakura had become – but it wasn't from anger.

"Me and him, on a date? That is never going to happen, not in this lifetime. Or the next."

"Oh, I used to know, well still do, two people just like you guys, always arguing and everything. One day they finally got the courage to tell each other how they felt."

"What ever happen to them?"

"Well, when you look at them nowadays you would never be able to tell that they were always at each others throats. Oh, I bet that you would like to see the movie alone, without me watching…it's okay, I won't."

"Okay, ja ne, Maiya-sensei."

"Kinomoto, we aren't in school. I'm not 'sensei', I'm Michiko-san."

"And I'm not Kinomoto-san, I'm Sakura."

"Hai, Sakura-san…oh, would you look at that, I'm going to have to skip this one." Michiko said, glaring at her beeper while she getting up.

Syaoran came, sliding into his seat without dropping anything. "Well, would you look at that? Teacher's pet trying to warm up to the teacher more."

"Better than the frozen solid personality that you sport."

"Why, we thought of a new one. Okay, before this gets out of control, I will back off in the interest of spying. And my cell phone is buzzing. One second." He looked at the caller ID and groaned. "Oh no…moshi moshi this is Li Syaoran speaking." He spoke quickly, hoping that Meiling wouldn't drag this on for too long.

"Hey there, how is your little date going?" Meiling asked innocently.

"Meiling!"

"Just kidding! Well, how is 'the' date going, by that I mean Hiiragizawa and Tomoyo-chan?"

"Alright, but if they start making out I'm walking out of here."

"Why, because you wish that were you and Sakura…?"

"Meiling, the next time you going to tease me, make sure there's at least a continent in between us. Good-bye. Movie's starting."

"Bye grumpy." The other line clicked before he could end the call, and he slouched back, sullen.

"I wonder whose cell phone was ringing?" Eriol asked, checking to make sure his was turned off.

"Well I know it's not know mine. Or yours."

Eriol leant back. "I'm surprised about something."

"What?"

"That little descendent and Sakura-san aren't stalking us. I would have noticed if they were."

"Yeah, but they don't even have a camera. And if they get in a fight we would definitely hear it."

"But they are smarter than that… I'm sure they wouldn't, this is too personal."

"You must have never watch reality television." Eriol laughed alongside Tomoyo, quieting down as the movie started.

Syaoran stood up in his seat, yawning. "Thank goodness that movie is over…but it had its funny parts."

"Yeah, especially when that guy got his head stuck in the toilet. Dumb and crude, but funny."

"It must bring back memories, huh?"

"You must have done that before."

"I loved that movie, it goes for the funniest one I ever seen, but it was mostly stupid antics that make it funny."  Tomoyo said laughing

"I know, but they must have paid them a lot of money to do that." Eriol said

"But I wish this was a double date with Syaoran and Sakura." Tomoyo said

"Yeah, but I think that would take awhile for them to warm up."

"Yeah I guess."

"Well how about a walk in the park to end our date?"

"Of course, I need to see something relaxing after seeing that, for I won't go to sleep laughing."

"Well the camera stalker express moves forward." Syaoran joked

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The night continued at the Penguin Park. Everything was silent and still. That is, except for a tree-

"Will you move over some?!" Syaoran yelled

"I would except I would fall out the tree," Sakura whispered sarcastically.

"I think that would do you good."

"Oh, shut up."

"Let's hide up here in the tree Li, it's a good idea Li," Syaoran said, mimicking Sakura.

"Ha ha, funny. I have one thing to tell you…that better not be your hand."

"Oops, sorry, thought it was a branch."

"Yeah right, probably made your dreams come true."

"Shut up, please!"

Sakura and Syaoran turned in opposite directions, so caught up in arguing that neither of them noticed a slight cracking noise.

"Eriol-kun, this is the best date I've ever been on. In fact it's the only date I been on." Tomoyo said with a slight chuckle from Eriol.

"That make two of us, I guess, huh?"

"I wish the night could last a little longer."

"Yeah, me too, but hey we have 2 months ahead of us," Eriol said, looking at the stars.

"Why two months, you're not moving back to England are you?" Tomoyo asked with a bit of worry.

"No, not for awhile. But I think that's the average dating time at Tomoeda, ne?" Eriol joked.

Sakura giggled to herself, zooming in on Eriol's star-struck (literally) opinion. "Okay, I think I have a good shot."

"I wish they would hurry up, I don't know how much longer this tree can hold us."

"Hopefully long enough till this is over. Hopefully."

Tomoyo looked up at Eriol. "I enjoyed it so much, I can't wait till the next date we have." 

"Yeah, well, we have the future in front of us."

"Yeah."

Syaoran looked at Sakura nervously, his smile plastered on his face. "Uh-oh."

"Uh-oh? What do you mean by uh-oh…"

"Uh-oh, I think the limb is about to-"

"Sakura-san! Li! What are you doing here?"

"Ano, Li was helping me find my math book," Sakura deadpanned.

"Yeah, you know, who would I tease if she stays behind because of math?"

"Oh, and she left it in the tree," Eriol said, his voice drenched with sarcasm.

"Iie, because it wasn't there," Syaoran said.

"Well, we better get going if we're going to find it," Sakura said, making highly unbelievable 'we're going' motions.

"Come back here you two! I know you guys are lying, you two are the worst liars I know, and I know you weren't on a date so explain." Eriol said, his voice deadly.

"Well, basically we were following you guys throughout your whole date." Syaoran said with a nervous chuckle.

"Now, why were you guys doing this?" Tomoyo said, her voice light and astute at the same time.

*What do I say now? Oh, I told you so. We shouldn't do this, but nooo. You had to watch your friend's date. *

*Oh shut up, it's not like I tortured into this, you made the decision to come here of your own accord. *

*Kinomoto? It.. it has been good knowing you. *

*You too. *

"Well…?" Tomoyo said, insistent.

"Well I thought that it would be so cute to tape you and Eriol-kun on your first date, and I just pressured Li and he just gave in and you know, and here we are now." Sakura said, in one breath.

'Did she just take most of the blame for herself?'

"Well, I got just one thing to say…the joke's on you!" Tomoyo said, grinning like a maniac.

"Nani?!" Sakura and Syaoran said at the same time, incredulous.

"It was our little prank too…we both saw you at the movie theatre when Maiya-sensei told us that she saw Sakura." Eriol explained, also smirking.

"What…you mean to tell us you knew all this time?" Syaoran said, getting slightly ticked.

"Yeah, but calm down, as long you are on my good side I'm all right here," Tomoyo joked.

"We could do better next time…but from now on, you can have this job, Daidouji," Syaoran said, throwing his arms up in defeat.

"You too, Eriol-kun," Sakura scowled, fingering the camera.

"I think its time to date this date officially over, don't you think so?" Eriol asked Tomoyo, all smiles.

"I think so, too. I'll see you guys Monday, ja," Tomoyo said, waving condescendingly.

"Bye…oh, and remember Li, Sakura-chan, don't do anything we wouldn't," Eriol joked, a playful smirk on his face.

"Hiiragizawa. Shut up," Syaoran growled, adding as an afterthought, "Please."

~*~

Sakura groaned in pleasure as she fell onto her bed, letting the camera flop harmlessly on her pillow. She moaned as the telephone forced her to get up.

"I wonder who on earth would call at this time? Moshi moshi…this is Kinomoto Sakura…who's this…?"

"This is Syaoran…look, I was just calling to tell you thanks."

"For what?" Sakura asked, now awake and upright. Maybe she should be recording this…

"For taking the blame, even though those two weren't going to do anything either way."

Sakura smiled. "Well you know how I am. Besides, it's no problem, just like you said."

"Okay then."

"Okay."

"Ja ne."

"Ja," Sakura said, hanging up the phone softly. Lying back on her bed, she hugged the camera to her chest. 'If only we were kids again, I'd correct everything that messed up our friendship.'

Syaoran hung up the phone and slumped into a chair. 'I felt young again. If I could go back in time and fix one thing... It would probably be... our friendship.'

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Well I finally finish and on Thanksgiving too. Well how did you guy enjoy this chapter? Pretty good I hope. Well sorry it took me so long to update. Well I know you guys are wondering what happen that made them like rivals, well in due time is all I'm saying. Well until next time

Sign,

Anime Queen A.K.A Amazonian Anime Queen

P.S Merry Christmas, I hope you guys get everything you wanted