Chapter 9: Come Away

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Syaoran's three months were coming to an end. Sakura wasn't allowed to visit him during his time. This was mainly due to Touya watching her every move.

Opening his apartment door, Syaoran threw his suitcase onto the sofa. Meilin had left a month before and the place was once again quiet and lonely. He opened up the refrigerator and gulped down some juice before heading into the shower.

As the cold droplets of water dripped down his body, he couldn't help thinking about the conversation he had had with his father two and a half months ago. It was the only time his father had visited his during those three months and Syaoran was disappointed that it hadn't been Sakura instead.

Since he hadn't had anymore contact with his old man, Syaoran wondered if he had been serious about moving him moving back his father and...stepmother.

Syaoran hated that word. It was the kind of word you would hear with working class, poor kids who vandalise and drink. Not something to be heard when you're upper middle class with a nice home and lots of money.

Rubbing shampoo vigorously in his hair, Syaoran frowned. He had hated THAT woman the moment she stepped into his house. He had hated the fact that it had only been six months since his mother had died; he hated the fact that he had to call her 'mom' and he hated the fact that his father had known her before his mother's death.

He was making himself angry, and he couldn't stop it. He was angry with everyone, hell, he was angry at the whole world. Why did HE have to suffer? Why was it HIS mom? It wasn't fair. Life wasn't fair. He hated it. He hated life.

A soft knock and the door caused Syaoran to jerk his head up, snapping him out of his thoughts.

Swiftly putting on a towel, he plodded to the door, not really wanting any visitors; he didn't like being disturbed while thinking.

Opening the door, he found Sakura standing there, looking kind of nervous. She took one look at his shiny, naked chest and blushing madly, turned her head to the side.

"Hi." She said quietly, her blush refusing to fade.

A pang of annoyance went through Syaoran's head. Why was she here? She hadn't even bothered to visit him in the prison. He frowned slightly.

"Hi." He almost snapped.

She was just standing there. Her emerald eyes averted. Syaoran's annoyance suddenly turned into a sort of evil pleasure when he realised that he was making her uncomfortable. Slowly, he leaned his arm against the doorframe and slowly adjusted his towel. Sakura tried hard not to look but her eyes kept on dancing to his body, then to the floor.

"Would you like to come in?" Syaoran asked, trying to suppress an evil grin. His mood, without him really knowing it, had completely turned around and he was enjoying teasing Sakura. Only if it was a little bit.

Once Sakura had shakily entered the apartment, Syaoran was forced to put on some clothing, he came out of his room wearing a baggy light-blue t-shirt and a pair of baggy denim pants.

He handed her a drink and removed the suitcase before sitting down next to the auburn haired girl.

A few minutes of mindless chatter went by, they talked about the weather, what prison was like and why Sakura wasn't able to visit Syaoran. Syaoran, on the other hand, failed to mention the fact that his father visited him and that he might be moving quite far away.

"So, it wasn't too bad," Syaoran rattled on, swirling his glass. "But it took me a while to learn not to bend down to pick up the soap."

Syaoran smirked and took a large gulp out of his glass.

"Most of the inmates were pretty cool, they were mostly small time crooks, petty theft, burglar-"

"Syaoran I-" Sakura suddenly burst out, causing Syaoran to stop mid sentence.

Almost as if she had caught herself in the nick of time, Sakura dropped her head and fiddled with her glass.

"You what?" He asked after a while, his mouth hanging open slightly.

"I...um...I..." Sakura trailed off, her head still down.

Thoroughly interested, Syaoran leaned over to Sakura, he took the glass out of her hand and put in on the floor.

"You what?" He whispered.

Poor Sakura's eyes were wide open and Syaoran leaned ever more closer to her face.

"I...I..." Was all she could say.

Syaoran chuckled lightly and took her head in his hand, he went to kiss her.

"T...thank you." She said, Syaoran's lips inches away from hers.

Pausing, he looked at her quizzically. "For what?"

"F...for..." She was stuttering again. "For being there."

Syaoran smiled and kissed her lightly, he then took her head and hugged her close to his chest.

"No problem." He muttered taking in the scent of cherry blossoms.

They stayed like that for a while, just sitting there. Syaoran had forgotten how much he had missed Sakura.

After about five minutes of this, the pair ended up lying on the sofa, kissing like the world was about to end.

Syaoran was, by now, thoroughly enjoying himself. Not only could he feel Sakura's breath against his face, he could hear her heart beat.

Thumpthumpthumpthumpthumpthumpthumpthumpthump...

His hand slowly slid down Sakura's pale leg. It stopped short of her long skirt.

"Syaoran." Sakura breathed, but he wasn't listening. His hand was now sliding back up her leg but he was taking the skirt with it. He leaned in harder as his hand got higher and higher.

"Syaoran, stop." Sakura said, sounding a little frightened. Syaoran cut her off by kissing her deeply. His other hand wrapped around her waist as he pulled her in.

"Syaoran!" By now, Sakura was sounding desperate. What was happening? Why wasn't he listening?!

Now, Syaoran's lust had totally taken place of rational thought, he was going mad. He wanted and he wanted her now.

"STOP!" Sakura yelled, throwing the hormonally charged boy off of her onto the floor with surprising ease.

Rubbing his head, the dark haired boy sat up and looked at Sakura. Anger and fear were mixed in her green eyes as she started for the door. Stumbling, Syaoran got up off the floor. He called after her but she didn't respond. As she reached the door, he managed to grab her hand.

"Sakura! I'm sor-" A large WHUMP sound rang out through the apartment. The anger had totally replaced the fear and Sakura looked up at Syaoran, her face dead-set in a frown.

Syaoran put his fingers to his cheek in disbelief. She had PUNCHED him! A PUNCH! Not only that, it was a painful one too! Never in his life had Syaoran been puched by a girl, he was shocked. Then, he started feeling guilty, she had hit him because he went too far.

"Sakura, I'm sorry." He said, breathless. He went to touch her but she flung his hand away.

"Don't touch me." She said through gritted teeth. "You're JUST like the rest of them. You're JUST like Takamura!"

Now, it was Syaoran's turn to be angry, he had just been slapped and called the one person he couldn't stand.

"Fine! See if I care!" Syaoran yelled back. "I'm sorry for not being good enough for you!"

Sakura flung the door open.

"I'm sick of playing this stupid 'fling' game!" She screamed. "I am NOT a toy for your or any other boy's amusement!"

With that, she stomped out of the door and slammed it so hard, a picture came off the wall, smashing the frame.

Syaoran stood there in silence before rushing to the window, he opened it wide and saw Sakura rushing out of the building.

He opened his mouth wide.

"I'm sorry Sakura chan! I wasn't thinking! I didn't mean to hurt you!"

Was what he would've said, had he been thinking, instead, it came out as:

"You're paying for that frame!!!"

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Um...been a long time eh? Looks like I haven't updated in a while...Ok, I'm sorry! This time, I really WAS busy! I'm going to Scotland in a few days time, so I won't be updating for at LEAST two weeks, three at the most!

In other news, I've got the first volume of Tsubasa! Sakura and Syaoran look ADORABLE!I like Fai D Flowright! He makes meh laugh.

Ok! Author replies!

bLuE-aZn-rAiN- This anime, innocent?! Au contraire (is that right?)! As in the original CLAMP manga, Touya kun is CLEARLY in love with Yukito! And Tomoyo had a HUUGE crush on Sakura! So it isn't an innocent anime so there! I guess I should've put up a warning or something, so I apologise for that! I don't what I'm gonna write until I write it!

And all the reviewers who were wondering whether Syaoran WOULD be put in jail or not...I have NO clue! I'm just making this up as I go along so don't take anything written down as fact, it's most probably made up!

I've also got a COOL new plot for another CCS fanfic, involving devils and angels! It'll be a SS as well as an ET! I'll write it once I've finished this one!

And lastly...I got my scanner working! I've posted up TWO pictures on new-fanart under the same pen name, so go check them out if you want! .

Still need to get the hang of that Paint Shop...

Sakura Clover