AN: I'm alive! I haven't forgotten about this story. I am so sorry about making you wait this long. I've had really bad writer's block and life in general has been a pain! Sigh. Umm… there are some readers still with me right? *Looks around* Helllllllooooooooo!!!!! Anybody there?

Syaoran: I think they left.

Fallen Angel: No! Please come back! I promise I'll update more!

Syaoran: That's what you said last time.

FA: Shut up! Or I'll make Eriol date Kaho and pair you up with Meilin!

Syaoran: No not that! I'm sorry!

Eriol: What's his problem?

FA: I haven't the faintest idea.

Syaoran: *grabs Eriol* You can't have him! He's mine.

FA: He's yours, as long as you do the disclaimer in a minute.

Syaoran: Fine.

FA: Good.

Anyways, thanks to everyone that's reviewed so far. I'm sorry for the long wait.

Shinigami: Yes I know that Yue and Yukito are the same person. For the purposes of the story, I made them separate. I'm going to do a prequel to this story after I finish, to explain how Yue and Yukito became two separate people and how Yue and Sakura got together. I'm sorry if I confused you and I hope this clears everything up. Thanks for reading!

Warnings: Shounen-ai, mild language, and OOCness. Don't like, don't read. Flames will be laughed at.

We finally get some Toya+Yuki fluff in this chapter!

FA: Syaoran, the disclaimer, please.

Syaoran: Fallen Angel doesn't own any of the characters in this story, she's just borrowing them and promises to put them back, unharmed, when she's done. Please don't sue her because she's broke, seeing as she had to go Christmas shopping and presents are expensive!

FA: Very good. Thank you.

Syaoran: You're welcome

FA: Once again, I'm sorry for the wait and I made this chapter extra long to make up for it. Now on to the story!

Chapter 5

Present Day…

"Well, the dishes are done and the kitchen's in order, so we can go see 'nii-chan and Yuki now!" Sakura said happily, bouncing around the kitchen.

Syaoran shook his head. "I swear she's on something," he murmured softly to Eriol and Tomoyo. "I mean no one can be so perky and cheerful all the time, can they?"

Eriol laughed softly. "When the person is Sakura, I think she can."

"Yeah," Tomoyo added, "I can't picture Sakura doing drugs or anything like that!"

"Good point," Syaoran said with a slight smile, "she's not the type of person you'd picture doing that kind of stuff. She's to sweet and innocent."

"Hey! You guys! Are we gonna go or what?" Sakura said impatiently, mock-glaring at her friends.

"Whenever you're ready we can go, Sakura," Eriol said to his impatient friend.

"I've been ready!" Sakura informed them, "I was waiting for you guys to finish talking!"

"Well, then let's go," Syaoran said. "Wait, are Toya and Yukito even home?"

"Yup!" Sakura said cheerfully, "Yesterday after graduation, 'nii-chan said to come over after we got up. We haven't been over much lately."

"Okay, well let's go then," Tomoyo said.

"Yue! Kero! We're going over Toya and Yuki's! Do you guys want to come with us?" Sakura yelled upstairs.

"No, that's all right I think I'll stay here and Cerberus is still sleeping," Yue said, walking into the kitchen.

"I thought you were upstairs!" Sakura said.

"I was," Yue replied, "but when you started yelling I came down because I didn't particularly feel like yelling so you could hear me."

"Oh," Sakura said, "Well we're going now then. We'll be back in a few hours. Tou-san's supposed to be home pretty soon, so he might be home before us."

"All right," Yue said. "I'll see you all later then."

"Okay!" Sakura said brightly and gave Yue a quick hug and kiss before turning to her friends. "Well, let's go people! Ja Yue!"

"All right already, sheesh. You sure are impatient," Eriol said, rolling his eyes. "Ja Yue."

"C'mon Syaoran, let's go before Sakura drags us out of the house," Tomoyo said with a grin. "Ja ne Yue!"

"Good idea, let's go," Syaoran said, heading for the door. "Ja Yue."

"Ja ne minna-san," Yue said and watched the four teens climb into Sakura's car and drive away before going back upstairs and laying down again. With in minutes Yue was asleep.

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"Toya, you'd better get up koi, Sakura and the others are going to be here soon," Yuki said, attempting to wake his sleeping lover.

Instead of waking up, Toya reached out and grabbed Yuki, pulling him down onto the bed. "I don't wanna get up," Toya mumbled sleepily, nuzzling Yuki's neck.

Yuki sighed contentedly and snuggled into Toya's arms, his head resting under Toya's chin, and closed his eyes. "This is nice," he murmured, "but Sakura and company will be here soon."

Toya sighed. "You're right, but they're not here yet, so we can stay like this for a little longer."

"Mm'kay," Yuki murmured, snuggling even closer to Toya, who tightened his hold on him.

Fifteen minutes later the two were awakened by Sakura knocking quite loudly on the door and yelling for them to get up.

"We need to give her a key," Toya said as he got up. "That way she won't disturb the neighbors."

Yuki laughed and got out of bed.

Toya went over to the window and opened it. "Hey squirt! Well be down in about five minutes, so can you stop yelling and wait quietly? You're disturbing the neighbors!"

"All right!" Sakura called back to her brother, "and don't call me squirt!"

Toya laughed and closed the window, turning to his boyfriend. He walked over to Yuki and wrapped his arms around him, pulling his lover close.

Yuki turned around and smiled up at Toya, who returned the smile and then captured his boyfriend's lips in a kiss. Yuki pressed closer to Toya and Toya tightened his hold on Yuki. They broke apart a few minutes later and just stood there for a moment.

"Aishiteru Toya," Yuki murmured, breaking the silence.

"Aishiteru Yuki, zutto," Toya said softly, pulling Yuki closer for a minute before reluctantly letting go. "We'd better get dressed and let the chibi's in before Sakura starts yelling again, koi."

Yuki smiled at him. "You're right, but I wouldn't let Sakura hear you call them chibi's, who knows what she'll do if she does!"

"Good point," Toya said with a laugh.

The two quickly got dressed and went downstairs to let the four teens in.

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"Finally!" Sakura teased as Toya opened the door. "That was more than five minutes you know!"

Toya rolled his eyes at his little sister. "I'm so sorry, can you find it in your heart to somehow forgive me?" he said sarcastically.

"Hmm… Oh all right, I suppose I can forgive you. But just this once, so don't let it happen again!" Sakura replied dramatically.

"Oh thank you, O Great One, you are much too kind," Toya replied sarcastically. He moved out of the way so that the group of teens could enter.

"You're welcome 'nii-chan!" Sakura said cheerfully. "Yuki! Hi!"

Yuki smiled as he walked into living room. "Ohayo Sakura, minna-san."

"Ohayo Yuki, Toya," the rest of the group chorused.

A few minutes later found the group settled in the living room, chatting away.

"Well, congratulations you guys, you survived high school," Yuki said, smiling at the group of teens.

"Yeah, congratulations, you all made it, even Sakura, who I had some serious doubts about," Toya added before ducking behind Yuki when Sakura tried to hit him.

The group thanked the two and they went back to talking, Sakura glaring at her brother every few seconds.

The conversation had turned to the previous year at some point and Sakura brought up their topic of conversation from the previous night.

"Do you guys remember trying when we were trying to get you two together?" Sakura asked Toya and Yuki.

Toya rolled his eyes. "How could we forget?" he asked sarcastically.

Sakura, Tomoyo, and Eriol smiled innocently. They had been the ones who had come up with all the ideas.

"You traumatized my poor Yuki!" Toya added melodramatically while Yuki did his best to look traumatized.

The group laughed and began talking again.

One year earlier…

In the previous weeks, Eriol had slowly started returning to his normal self as his friendship with Syaoran grew, as is shone on a sunny morning in July when Eriol had been given the task of waking one Li Syaoran up.

"Syaoran! Time to rise and shine!" Eriol sang as he shook his friend. When Syaoran mumbled incoherently and burrowed back under the blankets, Eriol glared at him. "Li Syaoran! Get your lazy Chinese ass out of bed now!" he yelled, yanking the blankets off of his sleeping friend. In the previous weeks, Eriol had slowly started returning to his normal self as his friendship with Syaoran grew.

Syaoran shot up out of his bed when Eriol took his covers. "Eriol! Who gave you a key to my apartment?" he whined, reaching for his blankets, which Eriol quickly pulled away from him.

"I'll give you three guesses," Eriol said with a grin.

"Sakura," Syaoran groaned, "I'm going to kill her!"

"I think someone needs anger management classes," Eriol informed Syaoran sagely.

Syaoran glared at his friend. "Do not!" he grumbled. "Now, is there a reason you found it necessary to come barging into my apartment and wake me up?"

"Yes," Eriol replied. "In case you forgot we're going over to Toya and Yukito's new apartment today."

Syaoran blinked. "Oh, right. I remember now," he said dazedly, still not completely awake.

Eriol rolled his eyes and reached down and grabbed Syaoran's hand and pulled him out of bed. Syaoran stumbled and caused him and Eriol to fall on the bed. Syaoran landed on top of Eriol and the two just stared at each other, unable to do anything else. Without realizing it, they had slowly started to close the gab between them. Suddenly the phone rang and the two jumped apart as if they had been burned.

"Uh… I'll go answer that," Syaoran said after a minute.

Eriol just nodded dazedly. 'Damn who's ever on the phone! He almost kissed me!' Eriol thought grumpily.

"Moshi moshi, Li Syaoran speaking," Syaoran said, answering the phone.

"Ohayo Syaoran!" Sakura's cheerful voice replied on the other line. "Is Eriol there?"

"Ohayo Sakura," Syaoran replied. "Yes Eriol's hear, would you like to speak to him?"

"Yes please!"

"Eriol, Sakura wants to talk to you," Syaoran told Eriol.

Eriol stood up and walked over to Syaoran, taking the phone from him. "Arigato."

Syaoran nodded in reply. "I'm going to get dressed," Syaoran said, grabbing some clothes from his closet and heading into the bathroom.

"Hey Sakura," Eriol said, "What's up?"

"Nothing really. Just making sure you remembered to get Syaoran up," Sakura replied. "Is something wrong Eriol? You sound kind of distracted."

"I'll tell you later," Eriol replied. "Me and Syaoran are meeting you and Tomoyo at Toya and Yukito's at eleven, right?"

"Yup!" Sakura replied. "Oh Tomoyo's here, I've gotta go. I'll see you guys at eleven. Tell Syaoran that I said bye, okay?"

"All right, Ja Sakura."

"Ja Eriol!"

Eriol hung up the phone and sat down on the edge of the bed to wait for Syaoran.

Five minutes later the bathroom door opened and Syaoran walked into the room, dressed in khaki shorts and a green t-shirt. "What did Sakura want?" Syaoran asked curiously.

"To make sure that I had come over to get you up. We're meeting her and Tomoyo at Toya and Yukito's at eleven." Eriol told Syaoran.

"Oh, well that means that we still have an hour until we have to meet them," Syaoran replied. "What should we do until then?"

"Actually, I need to run home real quick," Eriol replied. "You can come if you want."

"Okay," Syaoran replied with a shrug.

The two teens headed to the door and slipped on their shoes and left. "Do you want to ride with me or do you want to drive?" Eriol asked as they headed to the parking lot.

"I guess I'll just ride with you, if that's okay," Syaoran replied.

"That's fine," Eriol replied as they reached his car. He pulled his keys out of his pocket and unlocked the doors, sliding into the driver's seat as Syaoran got in the passenger seat. Eriol pulled out of the parking lot and they were on their way.

The drive to Eriol's house was silent, as the two were still a bit awkward from earlier. Fifteen minutes later they pulled into Eriol's driveway. The two got out of the car and walked to the door. Syaoran looked around while he waited for Eriol to unlock the door.

"C'mon in," Eriol said as he opened the door and walked inside, Syaoran following close behind. "Suppi-chan! Nakuru! I'm back!" When he received no reply, Eriol added, "Suppi-chan! Nakuru! You guys, I'm back! You better not have destroyed anything!"

CRASH!!!!

"Look what you did Suppi-chan!" Nakuru's said accusingly. "Eriol-sama's gonna kill you!"

"Me!?" Spinel exclaimed indignantly, "you're the one who did it! Eriol-sama's going to be mad at you, not me."

"I didn't do it!" Nakuru exclaimed, glaring at Spinel.

"Yes you did!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"All right you two, that's enough!"

The two arguing guardians looked up in surprise. "Eriol-sama! What are you doing here!?" Nakuru asked innocently.

Eriol raised an eyebrow. "Last time I checked I lived here," he replied. "Now what's going on?"

"Umm… well you see…" Nakuru stuttered. "Suppi-chan broke the picture frame Sakura got you for your birthday!"

"I did not!"

"What!?" Eriol exclaimed.

"Eriol-sama," Spinel said, "I didn't break it."

"I know Spinel," Eriol replied. "Nakuru, I'm not mad. I can fix it. But don't lie, okay. And don't blame Spinel for everything."

"Okay. Gomen nasai, Eriol-sama."

"It's all right. I'm probably staying over Sakura's tonight, so you guys'll have to fend for yourselves. Don't tear down the house, okay? I enjoy having a place to live, and if you did, I'd have to move in with Syaoran."

"Really?" Syaoran said. "Who says I'd let you live with me?"

"You mean you'd throw me out on the cold, lonely streets? All alone? I thought you loved me!"

Syaoran looked at him. "You have problems. Have you ever thought of seeing a psychiatrist?"

Eriol glared at him. "I am perfectly sane, thank you very much! Now come on, I've got to get some more clothes." Eriol and Syaoran headed upstairs to Eriol's room, leaving the two guardians alone.

"I'm going to the library," Spinel said as he left and went upstairs as well, leaving Nakuru to her own devices.

Syaoran followed Eriol to his room, looking around as they walked. "Is stuff like what just happened normal around here?" Syaoran asked.

"Pretty much," Eriol replied opening the door to his room. "You can come in you know," he said when he noticed Syaoran hovering uncertainly near the door.

Syaoran nodded and followed him in. "I forgot how big your house was," Syaoran said.

"I'd give you the grand tour, but we've gotta be at Toya and Yukito's soon," Eriol replied as he pulled clothes out of his closet and dresser and put them in a duffel bag. "You can sit down if you want," he said, gesturing to his bed. "I need to find my glasses case, my brush and my contacts, so it might take me a bit. Tell me if you happen to see any of them."

"Okay," Syaoran said as he sat down on the bed and watched Eriol run around looking for his stuff.

Fifteen minutes later they were ready to leave and Eriol was reminding his guardians not to destroy the house. "Okay! Let's go," Eriol said and the two left the house and got in the car. "We'll probably be a little bit early," he added.

"Okay, Syaoran said. The rest of the ride was silent.

"We're here," Eriol said, pulling into the parking lot of a large apartment complex ten minutes later. "It's apartment 203," he added as they entered the building. Two flights of stairs later they reached the correct apartment. Eriol rang the doorbell.

Yuki pulled open the door a minute later. "Hi! Come in. Sakura and Tomoyo aren't hear yet."

"Hi Yukito," Syaoran and Eriol chorused as they followed Yuki into the apartment, pausing to take off their shoes.

Yuki was about to close the door when Sakura called out "Wait we're here!"

Sakura and Tomoyo came into view and Yuki laughed. "Come on you two!"

The two girls entered the apartment and Yuki closed the door behind them. After taking their shoes of they followed Yuki into the living room where Toya, Syaoran, and Eriol were sitting.

"Konnichiwa minna-san!" Sakura and Tomoyo said as they sat down.

"Would anyone like something to drink?" Yuki asked.

"Water please," Sakura said.

"Water please," the other three added.

"Okay," Yuki replied and him and Toya went to go get water for everyone. They returned a few minutes later and gave everyone their water.

"Arigato!" The four teens chorused.

"You're welcome," Toya and Yuki replied.

"Do we get a tour of your apartment or not?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah, sure," Toya replied with a shrug. Him and Yuki showed the teens the rest of their apartment and then they sat down to talk.

They had been talking for a while when Sakura, Tomoyo, and Eriol glanced at each other, the same mischievous gleam in their eyes. "Nii-chan," Sakura said innocently. "Isn't there something you want to tell Yuki?"

Toya looked at his sister. "What are you talking about Sakura?"

"You know, that really important thing you need to tell Yuki," Sakura prompted.

"I have no idea what you're talking about, Sakura."

Sakura let out a frustrated sigh and nodded slightly at her friends.

Eriol, Tomoyo, and Syaoran, who had just been informed of what was going on, stood and slowly advanced on Toya and Yukito.

"Oh for Heaven's sake! Yuki, Toya's in love with you! He's been in love with you for years!" Sakura exclaimed. While the two were too stunned by her outburst to do anything, the four teens pounced on them and drug them to the bathroom, where they proceeded to shove and lock them in. "You two are staying in there until you work things out between you! You'll thank us for this someday!" Sakura told them through the door. With that the four teens walked back to the living room to wait.

(AN: I think I'll end it here.

Yuki: No! You can't do that to your poor readers! They've waited all this time and your just going to end it like this!? You can't! That's cruel! Inhumane! Unjust!

Fallen Angel: Okay! Okay! I was just joking anyway!

Yuki: Oh. Good.

FA: *rolls her eyes* Because I made you wait so long here's more! (To Yuki) Happy?

Yuki: Yep!

FA: Good. Now onto the rest of the story.)

In the bathroom…

"Toya, is what Sakura said true? Do you really feel that way?" Yuki asked quietly.

Toya sighed. "Yeah, I do," he replied. "I'll understand if you don't want to talk to me anymore. I'll leave as soon as Sakura lets us out. I'll just go move back in with my dad," he added dejectedly.

Yuki blinked. "Toya, why would I want you to leave?"

"Because you don't love me," he replied sadly.

"That's just it Toya," Yuki said before Toya could say anything else, "I do love you."

Toya looked up in shock. "What!?" he exclaimed. "You do!?

"Uh huh," Yuki replied, "I was just to afraid to tell you."

Toya stared at Yuki for a moment before pulling him close and kissing him. Yuki leaned into the kiss and wrapped his arms around Toya's neck. They parted a few minutes later when the need to breathe became too much to stand. "I love you, Yuki," Toya said.

"I love you too, Toya," Yuki replied, tucking his head under Toya's chin.

"Let's get Sakura to let us out of here," Toya said after a few minutes.

"Mmkay," Yuki mumbled and the two stood up just as the door opened.

In the living room…

"I hope we didn't make a mess out of things," Sakura said, glancing worriedly towards the bathroom.

"Everything will be fine Sakura," Tomoyo said, doing her best to calm her friend's fears.

"Tomoyo's right Sakura," Eriol added. "It was obvious they were in love with each other, so don't worry."

Syaoran nodded in agreement.

"If you say so," Sakura said uncertainly.

The four talked about nothing in particular to pass the time.

"It's been awhile, maybe we should go let them out," Sakura said.

The other three nodded in agreement and they headed to the bathroom. Sakura took a deep breath and opened the door.

Toya and Yuki stood in the doorway, holding hands. Sakura beamed at them. "It worked! Well, we should leave you two alone, so we'll be going now."

"Okay, but you and me are having a talk sometime soon, understand?"

Sakura nodded and they headed to the door. The teens slipped on their shoes and left.

"Well, that was a bit unconventional, but it worked," Eriol said with a laugh.

"Yeah. See Sakura, you were worried about nothing," Syaoran added.

"You're right. Well, let's go over my house, okay?" Sakura said, as they reached their cars.

"Okay," the other three agreed. They got into their cars and left.

A half an hour later found the four, plus Kero and Yue, sprawled out in Sakura's room, eating pizza. Well, Tomoyo, Eriol, Syaoran, and Kero were eating pizza. Sakura was eating pizza in between trying to get Yue to eat some.

"I don't want any," Yue said as Sakura tried for the tenth time to get him to eat some pizza.

"Just try it!" Sakura pleaded.

"No."

"Hmmph! Chicken! You're just afraid to eat some!" Sakura taunted.

"I am not afraid!" Yue retorted indignantly.

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"Are too!" When Yue opened his mouth to reply, Sakura shoved a bite of pizza into his mouth and said, "Chew and swallow."

The rest of the occupants of the room laughed as Yue did as he was told.

"There," Sakura said, "Now was that so hard?" When Yue didn't reply she added, "Well, did you like it?"

"It was all right, I guess," Yue replied and took the slice of pizza Sakura offered him.

Hours later after the pizza was gone and Tomoyo and Syaoran had left, Sakura and Eriol were stretched out in the living room, watching a late night movie, when Sakura suddenly remembered something. "Eriol, what was bothering you when I called over Syaoran's this morning?"

Eriol blinked. "What? Oh! Well, Syaoran was just about to kiss me when you called!"

"WHAT!?" Sakura exclaimed.

Eriol shushed her and explained what ha happened.

"Oh! I just had to go and call didn't I!" Sakura grumbled. "Gomen, Eriol!"

"It's all right Sakura," Eriol assured his friend. "At least I know that he might like me romantically and not just as a friend now."

"That's true, but still," Sakura said.

"Don't worry about it Sakura. It's late let's get some sleep," Eriol told her.

"Okay. Oyasumi Eriol," Sakura said.

"Oyasumi Sakura."

With that, the two teens got comfortable and drifted off to sleep.

AN: Whew! All done! Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I can't guarantee when the next chapter will be posted, but it shouldn't take as long, especially because I've got Christmas break coming up in two weeks. Well, I really am sorry about the wait. Thanks for being so patient! Please read and review! Thanks!