AN: Well, it didn't take me three months this time. *Grins* Well, I don't have much to say actually. So go read the chapter! And please R+R! Thanks!

Warnings: Shonen-ai, Yaoi, Slash, whatever you wanna call it. Although if you've read this far you should know that by now. Fluff, and Pikachu bashing. (Don't ask, just read to find out.)

Disclaimer: Alas, I do not own any of the characters you see here, CLAMP does. All I own is the plot. *Sniffles* You just had to make me say it, didn't you! There go all my delusions, I feel so alone! Ahem, anyways please don't sue, I'm poor. I spent all my money on anime and manga.

Now, onto the story!

Chapter 6

Present…

"Well," Sakura said, "I told you that you'd thank me someday, didn't I! Just think, you and Yuki might never have gotten together without me. You'd both probably be lonely and depressed right not, wallowing in mis-"

"Okay Sakura! We get the picture," Toya said, interrupting his sister before she could continue on with her rant.

"I've got a question Sakura," Yuki said, "if you locked me and Toya in a bathroom to get us together, how'd you get Eriol and Syaoran together?"

Sakura grinned. "I did absolutely nothing. They did it all on their own!"

Toya and Yuki shared a skeptical look. "Uh huh. All on their own? Why don't I believe that?" Toya said.

"No really. They did! You see it was like this…"

Past…

Tomoyo and Syaoran walked into the living the next morning to find the two teens still sleeping.

Syaoran grinned evilly.

"Why are you grinning like an evil villain bent on world domination?" Tomoyo asked, eyeing Syaoran warily.

"Payback!" Syaoran replied.

"On who and for what?"

"Eriol. For waking me up yesterday!"

Tomoyo rolled her eyes and watched Syaoran quietly walk over to Eriol.

Syaoran approached Eriol cautiously, careful not to make a sound. When he reached the couch, Syaoran let out a breath that he hadn't even realized he was holding. He was just about to wake Eriol up when he was suddenly pulled down onto the couch and into Eriol's arms. Syaoran lay still for a moment before trying to pry Eriol's arms off of him. All that he got for his efforts was a change in position. Syaoran now found himself laying flat on his back with Eriol curled up against him, his head resting on Syaoran's chest. Syaoran looked pleadingly at Tomoyo and Sakura, who Tomoyo had woken up while Syaoran was being cuddled by Eriol.

The two girls grinned at their friend. "We're going to go start breakfast," Sakura whispered. "Have fun!" Tomoyo added with a grin. With that, the two disappeared into the kitchen, leaving Syaoran alone with Eriol.

Syaoran glanced down at Eriol and sighed. How was he going to get out of this situation without waking Eriol up? 'This is nice though,' Syaoran thought. 'I don't think I want to move. I could stay like this forever. But if Eriol wakes up he'll probably get mad at me. It's not like he actually has any feelings other than those of friendship for me. He doesn't love me. He can't love me not after how I treated him.' Syaoran had come to terms with the fact that he was in love with Eriol but he had managed to convince himself that Eriol couldn't possibly love him back.

While Syaoran had been lost in his thoughts, Eriol had begun to wake up. 'Mmmm… this is nice and warm and comfortable,' Eriol thought sleepily as he shifted a bit. 'Hmm, that's strange, the couch seems smaller somehow then when I fell asleep.' Sleepy blue violet eyes blinked opened sleepily. 'Oh there's someone next to me, that's why there's less room,' it took a moment for that thought to completely register in Eriol's sleep fogged mind. 'Someone's sleeping next to me!? Since when!? There was definitely no one there when I went to sleep. Why is there someone there!?' Eriol mentally slapped himself, 'Calm down, there's no reason to panic. Just find out who it is and be careful not to let whoever it is know that you're awake.' Eriol cautiously stole a glance at who he was currently using as a pillow. 'Oh shit! Syaoran! Now you can panic!'

In the kitchen…

"So do you think they're up yet?" Sakura asked Tomoyo as the two made breakfast.

"No probably not yet," Tomoyo replied, "do you think I should've warned Syaoran about Eriol's tendency to latch on to people when he sleeps?"

"Nah, it's more fun this way!"

The two girls dissolved into giggles.

Back in the living room…

Syaoran felt the body curled against him tense slightly and he looked down into wide blue-violet eyes and found that he couldn't look away and, to be truthful, he didn't want to look away. Slowly Syaoran closed the space between him and Eriol, giving the other teen plenty of time to stop him. "Please don't hate me for this," Syaoran whispered before pressing his lips to Eriol's briefly.

Eriol looked at Syaoran. And looked some more. When Syaoran did nothing, the blue-haired teen raised an eyebrow. "That's it? You call that a k-mmph!"

Syaoran effectively shut Eriol up by kissing him again. He tightened his grip on the boy in his arms and kissed him harder.

Eriol shifted in Syaoran's grip, he really wasn't in a very comfortable position for kissing. Eriol pulled away from Syaoran for a moment and shifted so that he was now straddling Syaoran before continuing with what he had been doing.

They continued to kiss for a few more minutes before they broke apart panting and just stared at each other. "I think we need to talk," Syaoran said.

"Mmhm," Eriol murmured in agreement, but made no move to get off of Syaoran.

"Eriol, you need to move," Syaoran told his dazed friend.

Eriol blinked. "Oh! Gomen Syaoran," he said as he slipped off of Syaoran and sat down on the opposite end of the couch. He was completely appalled with his behavior. Syaoran probably thought he was a slut now. He felt tears well up in his eyes and tried to hold them back, but to no avail. The tears spilled out and he tucked himself up into a ball as sobs wracked his body.

Syaoran looked at Eriol, trying to figure out why he was crying. "Eriol?" he called softly, moving closer to his friend and tentatively pulled Eriol into his arms holding him close. "I'm sorry for whatever I did to upset you, please don't cry Eriol, I don't like to see you cry."

Eriol looked up at Syaoran in confusion. "You don't think," sniffle, "that I'm a slut?"

"What!" Syaoran exclaimed, "why would I think that?"

"Because of the way I acted when you kissed me."

Syaoran sighed and shook his head. "I don't think you're slut Eriol, the most beautiful person I've ever seen yeah, but not a slut."

Eriol looked at Syaoran in shock. Syaoran thought he was beautiful? "You think I'm beautiful?"

Syaoran nodded and looked down into Eriol's eyes. "Yes, the most beautiful person in the world and I'm so sorry for how I treated you before."

Eriol beamed up at Syaoran and snuggled closer. "Ai shiteru Syaoran," he murmured softly, afraid of Syaoran's reaction.

Syaoran tightened his hold on Eriol and whispered, "I love you too, Eriol, I love you too," before pressing a kiss to the top of Eriol's head.

Eriol sighed contentedly and drifted off to sleep.

Back to Sakura and Tomoyo…

"Do you think we should go check on them?" Sakura asked. Her and Tomoyo had finished making breakfast and had been waiting on the two boys.

"Probably," Tomoyo replied, "It's been awfully quiet in there and breakfast's ready."

The two girls quietly tiptoed into the living room; identical grins spreading over their faces when they saw the two boys curled up together.

"Kawaii!" Sakura exclaimed softly. "They look so cute together!"

Tomoyo smiled and nodded in agreement.

Sakura's soft exclamation had alerted Syaoran to their presence. He looked up at the two and made a shushing motion.

"Breakfast is ready," Sakura said quietly, "You're gonna have to wake him up, he needs to eat."

Syaoran nodded and attempted to wake Eriol up, attempted being the key word here. The blue-haired teen refused to wake up.

Sakura giggled and walked over to the boys. "Here, let me." With that Sakura knelt down and promptly began to tickle Eriol.

Eriol squirmed a bit before his eyes snapped open and he began to laugh. "Stop… Kura! Please… stop! I'm … awake!" he gasped out through his laughter.

Sakura grinned and stopped her torture of her friend. "And that, Syaoran, is how you wake Eriol up when he's being stubborn."

"Well, that or tell him Nakuru and Spinel are wrecking havoc on poor unsuspecting people," Tomoyo added.

"Or tell him his hair's on fire."

The two girls suddenly grinned. "But," they began in unison, "the best way to wake Eriol up is to tell him that they took off Sailor Moon for Pokemon."

Eriol blushed bright red. "What's wrong with liking Sailor Moon?" he asked. "They better not take off Sailor Moon for that damn yellow rat!"

The two girls snickered and Syaoran just looked at Eriol. "There's nothing wrong with liking Sailor Moon. We just find it amusing that you like it," Tomoyo said, still snickering.

Eriol pouted. "Stupid yellow rat," he muttered, "what's so great about it? All it does is say 'pika pika'! What's the big deal? It's annoying that's what it is! Damn annoying yellow rat!"

Syaoran looked at Eriol. "You have issues," he informed him.

The two girls broke into laughter and Eriol blinked in confusion at Syaoran before blushing even redder than before. "Well," Sakura said after she had calmed down, "let's go eat before breakfast is ice cold." She stood up and headed into the kitchen, the other three teens trailing behind her.

The four teens were eating breakfast and talking about their plans for the day, when Syaoran asked the question that Sakura and Tomoyo had been anticipating. "Eriol? Why do you hate Pokemon?"

"I don't hate the whole show, just Pikachu."

"Ah, I see, why?"

Eriol shrugged. "I don't really know. It's just annoying and there's something about that just gets on my nerves."

"Oh."

"Hey," Sakura said, "you guys wanna go to the mall for a while?"

"Sure," Tomoyo said.

Eriol's face lit up, he loved shopping, but he glanced over at Syaoran and changed his mind. "Not today," Eriol said.

"No thanks," Syaoran told the girls.

"Okay. Well then, let's get everything cleaned up and get dressed and then we can all head out."

"Sakura, why don't you and Eriol go get dressed. Me and Tomoyo can handle cleaning up," Syaoran said and Tomoyo nodded in agreement.

"You sure?" Sakura asked.

The two nodded and Sakura and Eriol left to get ready.

Half an hour later they were all ready to leave. "You guys are welcome to come over later if you want," Sakura told Syaoran and Eriol as the four stood outside. "Just come over, you don't have to call."

"Okay. I've gotta get my car anyways," Eriol replied.

Sakura nodded and the four got into their cars. Sakura and Tomoyo in Sakura's car and Eriol and Syaoran in Syaoran's car. Eriol and Syaoran pulled out first and then Sakura and Tomoyo. They headed in separate directions, the girls to the mall and the boys to, well they weren't exactly sure.

"So," Eriol said, looking over at Syaoran, "what do you want to do?"

Syaoran shrugged, "It doesn't matter."

"Oh," Eriol said. He began to fidget nervously as they drove on in silence. "We could go over to my house if you want or something," Eriol murmured, breaking the silence.

Syaoran glanced over at Eriol as they sat at a red light. Eriol was nervously wringing his hands together and his eyes were fixed on them. "That's fine with me."

Eriol looked up and smiled slightly at Syaoran. "Okay, you're driving in that direction anyways."

The rest of the ride was in a much more comfortable silence. Syaoran pulled into Eriol's driveway a few minutes later and the two got out of the car and walked up to the house. Eriol unlocked the door and the two went inside. "Well, I still have a house," Eriol said, "and I don't hear arguing. I wonder if they killed each other." Eriol looked at Syaoran and grinned. "They're always at each other's throats. It's the main reason I'm always over Sakura's. We'd all probably hang out here but it's hard to get any peace sometimes. C'mon, I've gotta find them. I can give you a tour at the same time."

Syaoran nodded and the two started off. They had checked every room in the house except Eriol's room and they couldn't find the two guardians anywhere. "They better not have destroyed my room," Eriol grumbled as he pushed open the door to his room. Eriol breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his room was just like he left it, with the exception of a note taped to his mirror. Eriol walked into his room and motioned for Syaoran to follow him. "Have a seat," Eriol said, "anywhere's fine."

Syaoran sat down on the bed and Eriol pulled the note off of his mirror before flopping down on the bed next to Syaoran.

-Eriol,

Me n Souppy-chan went shopping. Don't worry, we won't destroy

anything, promise! We'll be back in a few hours so see ya then if

you're home.

-Nakuru

"They went shopping. Poor Spinel, I feel bad for him," Eriol said after reading the note. "I just hope Nakuru doesn't destroy anything or scare some poor, innocent person half to death." Eriol shrugged, "Oh well, at least we'll have peace and quiet. So, what do you want to do?"

"It doesn't matter to me. What do you want to do?"

"I don't know. What do y-mmph!" Syaoran kissed Eriol, effectively shutting him up. "That's always a plan," Eriol mumbled when they broke apart.

Syaoran grinned before kissing Eriol again.

"Eriol! We're ba…ck," Nakuru said as she bounded into Eriol's room. The two boys had been so caught up with each other that they hadn't heard the two guardians when they came back.

"Is something wrong with Eriol, Nakuru?" Spinel asked when Nakuru froze in the door to Eriol's room.

"Eriol… he… he's kissing…" Nakuru stuttered.

Spinel sighed and flew into the room to see what was wrong for himself. "Is that Li!?"

"Uh huh," Nakuru murmured, still in shock.

"Maybe we should go," Spinel suggested.

"Don't you two ever knock?"

Nakuru and Spinel jumped and turned to look at Eriol. "Eheh, um, yeah, um… Gomen nasai Eriol! Li!" the two said before bolting out of Eriol's and downstairs.

"Well, that was interesting," Eriol said, shaking his head in amusement.

"You can say that again," Syaoran said, looking over at Eriol who was yawning. "Tired?"

"Hai," Eriol replied, yawning again.

Syaoran pulled Eriol into his arms, holding him close. "Then go to sleep. I don't mind, I'm tired too."

Eriol snuggled close to Syaoran and tucked his head under Syaoran's chin, sighing in contentment. "Mmkay. Night koi."

"Goodnight, angel," Syaoran murmured in reply, hugging Eriol closer and kissing the top of his head.

Within moments the two teens were asleep, held safely in each other's arms, secure in the knowledge that the other would be there when they awoke.

AN: There! Eriol and Syaoran finally got together! I hope it didn't turn out too badly. I had fun writing this chapter. Actually the story's about over. There's probably only one more chapter left, but don't worry, I'm gonna write a sequel and a prequel. The sequel will focus mainly on Syaoran and Eriol and will take place while they're in college and the prequel will be about how Sakura and Yue got together and some other stuff. The sequel will probably be out before the prequel because I've got an idea for it and I'm not too sure what to write for the prequel. But there's still one more chapter of this story to go. I'm not sure when I'll have it up seeing as school's starting back up again soon and I've got an 8-10 page research paper to write for my senior English, although I've got about 6 weeks to work on it, it's still gonna take up a lot of time, seeing as it's like 1/3 of our grade, I think. SO I'm not promising anything, but I'll try not to take three months like last time. Well I hope you enjoyed the chapter, please R+R! Thanks!