Hi it's me again. I am really sorry for not updating the story until now. But you know how life is. It is very complicated. Too much homework and when there is no homework I have to go to the drama club for three hours after school and be Miss Student Director. Uhhh! Way too much stuff for a 9th grader to deal with.

Well anyway, thanks for the people how really found my story good and waited for me to continue. Oh and please don't try e-mailing me on my old e-mail address anymore. My new one is like the old one but a little different. Here it

And there you go! I will try to make this chapter as long as I can as gift for the people who have been waiting for this chapter.

Well without further to do… ON WITH THE STORY!

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LAST CHAPTER:

I woke up with the sun shinning though the window and the sound on of my phone beeping. I yawned and grabbed my phone off my night table. On the screen it read new text message. I looked over at my clock and saw it was still 6 am. Who could be up at this time? I thought as I answered the text. I gasped at what my phone read:

13 more days, my cherry blossom. Expect a gift of my love every day until then!

NOW THE STORY:

I did the only thing I could think of. I screamed.

"YYYYYYAAAAAAHHHHHH!" I screamed at the top of me lungs.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" I heard the voice of Touya coming from the living room and then a loud THUD!

"Sakura! Are you okay?" Syaoran yelled over my screams.

All three come into my bedroom and all three were coving their ears. Actually, all Touya could do was cover one ear as rubbed the forming bruise on his head.

I saw Yue coming over to me and very fast took his hands from his ears and replaced them on my mouth. That muffed the scream to an understanding volume. Touya and Syaoran took their hands from their ears and walked over to me. Touya took a seat on my night desk while Syaoran took a seat on the over side of me.

"Sweetie, Yue will remove his hands if you will stop screaming," said Syaoran sweetly. I nodded and lowered my volume a notch at a time until it was unable to be heard.

Syaoran nodded to Yue and Yue released his hands. They all looked at me waiting for me as if I was going to explain myself for the purpose of me sudden outburst a few moments ago. I just shock my head and lowered it. I handed my phone to Yue with the text still on the screen. Yue pressed a button to light up the screen. It did not take long for him to read it until he himself let out a horrible yell. But unlike mine, which was full of fear, his was full and anger and rage.

"Shit! What the fuck is with all the screaming?" said an angry Touya when Yue way was finished. He went back to rubbing his bruised head.

"That fucker that keeps fucking with Sakura texted her this morning! Look!" Yue said shoving the phone into Syaoran hands. Syaoran lighted up the screen and read on. Touya leaned forward to look at the text too. As soon as he was finished his eyes turned stone cold along with his face. Syaoran just looked at it gravely and sit the phone down gentle on the night table.

"Sakura, what are you doing today?" asked Syaoran so calmly that it was too creepy for him.

"Why the fuck are you so calm about this? Can't you see that some crazy bastard is trying to…no scratch that…is fucking mess with her! What kind of boyfriend are you?" Touya screamed at Syaoran. He literally stood up and started to shake Syaoran as if to knock some sense into his head.

Syaoran just sat there and took the blow of very word and the rattle of very shake. He just waited for him to stop.

But he didn't. Touya kept on shaking him even thought he was though talking. He was waiting for Syaoran to show him some emotion of rage or anger or even fear for me, his baby sister. He wasn't going to take the fact that he was acting to calmly in this type of situation.

I stood there and watched as my kuya shook my boyfriend over and over. I watched and sensed my anger building inside me. And at the tenth shake I snapped.

"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY BOYFRIEND!" I screamed at him. I throw his hands off Syaoran and gave a forceful shove into the wall. I heard Touya slammed into the wall with a loud crack sound coming from the wall.

I didn't really care if he was hurt or not. I couldn't stand it anymore. I knew that part of the reason that Touya did what he did was because of what he said. Yes, he shock Syaoran because he was mad at the way Syaoran expressed himself in the situation. But I knew better. He also shock him because of what Syaoran was now to me. He shock him because he knew that he could no longer have me and that it was Syaoran that took me away from him and he couldn't stand that fact.

So he took it out on him the only way he saw fitting. He added his anger to the situation at hand. And that, you can say, is what really made me mad.

I took a protective stance in front of Syaoran and glared at Touya, almost daring him to take a step in his direction. I watched as Touya slowly raised and fixed himself. I watched how his eyes never left mine as he rose. He, too, had the same daring expression on his face as I did. We both had to much pride at that point to stop this meaningless feud.

"Why do you protect him? Can you not see that he does not care for you? Look at how he treats this situation! He should be angry like I am! Maybe he does not understand how to act in these complex situations," Touya growled at me.

"You lie to yourself when you say that Syaoran does not care for me. You know he does," I said slowly raising so that I was standing as straight as I could. I stepped back and found rest in Syaoran's lap. I felt him wrap his arms around me and give me a tight squeeze for comfort.

I would have looked back at him with a warm smile of reassurance but I made sure that I kept eye contact with Touya. I knew that this was a battle that I could not lose.

"Touya, my kuya, Syaoran acts the way he does because he has a level head and knows that anger is not the way to see this situation. Anger would only blind us from the answers to our problems even more. That it why Syaoran does not show any anger or rage in the situation. You know this as well as I do. You just," I smiled a sad smile over to him, "wanted a reason to attack him."

I saw his eyes grow with more rage at ever word I said. I saw as snorted at my last statement. I watched as he took long forceful steps towards my bedroom door. I winced as he slammed my door close. I listened as he took more steps into the hallway. I heard the click of the door unlocking and the hinges squeaking as it opened. I sighed as I heard it being slammed shut. I turned towards my window as I heard his heavy footsteps knock against the wooden steps. I closed my eyes not letting the tears that had formed to escape as I heard him get in his car and drive away.

I slowly opened my eyes and turned my body slightly so that I was facing the two remaining bodies in the room. I gave them a weak smile. It was returned with sadden solemn expressions.

That is what let me released the tears that where paining my eyes since they were unable to fall. I lowered my head and wept heavily on Syaoran's shoulder. I felt Syaoran gently rest his cheek on my back and whisper soothing sounds a mother would make when she wanted to put her little infant to sleep.

But it didn't matter. I wept and I wept. For I knew that I had won this battle with my brother but in the process I lost so much more.

I lost my brother to my pride. I lost my pride at the fact that I lost my brother. I lost any hope of family help in this new chapter of my life. I lost…my brother.

I lost him I lost him I lost him I thought over and over again. I began to sob harder. Soon if felt like actual rivers were flowing down my face.

I felt how Syaoran carefully placed me so I was in a laying position. I felt him lay next to me and wrap his warm arms around me. I felt him cradle me back and forth. I felt Yue sat behind me. I felt him stroke my back. I felt him smooth my hair. I felt how these two tried to comfort me.

But what I really felt was…

loneliness

and

emptiness.

I wept myself to sleep and all I dreamt of was darkness with one tiny spec of light trying to grow brighter. The light was me and the darkness was everything else.

I woke to find the sun shining brightly and my messy chocolate haired prince sleeping right beside me. I smiled and gave a very soft kiss on his forehead. He stirred for a moment then settled back into his dream-like state.

I moved ever so softly so as not to disturb the sleeping prince. I walked ver to the doorway and turned to gaze at him a little longer. I sighed and stepped out of the room closing the door behind me.

Just as I stepped into the living room the house phone rang. I ran to it and picked it up hoping it did not wake Syaoran. I stopped and listened. I sighed when I did not here stirring in the other room. I went back to the phone reading the caller ID. It read Mimori Tomoyo. I giggled and answered it.

"Moshi Moshi," I answered.

"Hey Sakura-chan," she said with a hidden wonder in her voice.

"Why are you so happy?" I asked.

"Well… the girls and I were wondering if you and that lovely boyfriend of yours, Syaoran wanted to go to the movies tonight?"

"Wait a minute… when did I tell you about me and Syaoran?"

"I told her last night if that's Tomoyo," said Yue coming out of the bathroom room with just a towel on.

"Thanks a lot, Bro," I said rolling my eyes and returning my attention back to Tomoyo. "So… you called last night?"

I walked over to the cough and sat down on the couch as she answered me, "Well DUH! You go out on a date with a guy that has had a major crush on you like since FOVEVER and you don't call me to tell me the details. The only reasons that you wouldn't call me are you really hated the date and so did not want to talk about it or you had such a great night that he became your boyfriend that night. So which on do you think I chose?"

"God, you sure can talk. Well he is my boyfriend and maybe. I'll ask him when he wakes up. Say, can I bring Yue?"

"Of course. Ryoko is bringing Yukito."

"Oh… so when did this happen?"

"Last night. Ryoko told me that she was in bed read the new J-14 magazine when her phone rang. She answered it and at first there was no one answering. He didn't answer until she like said the fifth hello and was about to hang up. She said that he just wanted to say hi and that he was bored and all the crap. They like talked for like three hours before he got the nerve to ask her to the movies. But you know them. They are to shy to be alone together. So they agreed to have us go al together as a group thing. God those two are pathetic. They can't even be in crowded room alone together."

"Wow, I have so have to go to this thing and see those two actually together outside of church."

"I know! It's so said how those two are so shy even though they like each other and they know they other one like them too. I think that is really stupid. I mean, if you know that that they person you are crushing on also has a crush on you wouldn't that have to give you more courage to talk that person more and not back away further. If that was me and I knew that the person I have a major crush on has one on me than I would be asking him out in the next heart beat."

"Well that you Tomoyo. Anyway, I have to go. I think Syaoran is waking up," I said as I heard stirs coming from my room. "Hey, when the movie?"

"At 8:30. So be there at 7:30, 'kay?"

"Yah. Okay. See yah then. Ja ne."

"Ja ne," and with that she hung up. I looked at the phone for a sec with a smile on my face before getting up and placing it back on the charger.

Just as I placed it down the door to my room opened and in a second appeared Syaoran with a drowsy look on his face. I could still tell that he was half-asleep because he walked right pass me into his bedroom. I giggled as I heard Yue and Syaoran both yell and Syaoran run out of there, now wide-awake.

"I guess you walked in on him changing," I smirked as I walked over to him and wrapped my arms around his neck.

"That was a side of Yue that I hoped that I would never see," he said shaking his head and wrapping his arms around me.

We walked over to the couch and sat down. He sat down and put me on his lap. He stroked my hair was a laid my head on his chest. We stayed like that for awhile just enjoying each other's warmth.

Just then I started think about some things. If I knew that Syaoran liked me before yesterday then I would have already been with him. And why did I not realize that he liked me until now? Now that I think about it he gave me all the sighs and gestures. Even my friends told me that he liked me. I can't believe I was so blind. Gosh! Do I feel stupid! And instead of mentally hitting myself in the head I really did it.

"What was that for?" he asked chuckling as he watched me rub my forehead.

"I just feel really stupid. I mean," that's when my mouth took off, "you showed all the sighs that you liked me. The way you talked to me. The way you looked at me from a distanced. The way you got angry or sad every time…"

"Sa…"

"I talked about Eriol. The way you got so happy that you wouldn't stop smiling just because I was there with you. The way you gave me all those warm smiles that you never gave any one else. The way you…"

"Saku…"

"Would always protect me from almost about anything. The way you were always there when I need a shoulder to cry on. You were always there when I couldn't find Kuya. You were always there to help me out…"

"Sakura…"

"With no questions asked. You never cared what the favor was just that you were there with me you would do it. I mean I'm grateful. I am really grateful. I'm glad that you would do all those things…"

"Sakura…"

"Just because it was me. But I can't believe I was so stupid that I didn't realize it. I mean you showed me all the sighs for how many years and I still didn't get why you were doing all these thing for me. Gosh! I feel so…"

"SAKURA!"

With that he covered my mouth with his hand. All this time he tired to get something in this whole conversation that was mostly one sided. But he very successfully failed.

"Now will you stop talking for one sec and let me have some say in this whole matter?" I nodded my head when it became clear that he was not going to remove his hand from my mouth until he was done saying what he had to say.

"Now, I've already told you that I don't care about all that. I love you, Sakura. I don't care if it took you awhile to realize that but as long as you did notice I'm glad. Now I'll let go of your mouth if you promise to be quite."

I nodded and he let go.

"I want you to know that it doesn't matter to. Well I'm glad that you like the ways I treated you… but that is beside the point.

"You know I really wanted to hit you for calling yourself stupid. I hate it when you call yourself stupid just because something like that. You know its part of your charm that you are so carefree that you don't notice thing like other people. Every one loves you because you're so carefree like that. It makes them happy to see you just being yourself. I'm finish for now, so now you may talk."

I nodded and looked down, a little bit embarrassed. "I know. I know. But sometimes I think being so carefree is sometimes a curse. Sometimes I wish I could figure out things as fast as you guys do. I feel a slow on the update sometimes," I said in a small childish voice.

"But none of us would have it any other way, Little Cherry Blossom," Yue's voice came into the conversation.

We turned to see Yue leaning against the bedroom doorway. Might I add fully dressed as well. He was wearing a white turtleneck with a very light blue blazer and light blue jeans.

"How long have you been standing there?" I asked with a smile.

"Long enough to know what you two were talking about," he replied closing the space between us and sitting down on the couch. "So did you tell Syaoran here that we are going to the movies yet?"

"Movies?" He looked at me confused. "I thought we agreed to say home for now until we came up with a plan?"

"Yah, but I decided that as long as she was with a group of friends this fucker won't try to mess with her as long as someone is always with her," Yue said.

"Wait but I never told the girls," I stated.

"I told them last night. I hope you don't mind."

"It's okay. They were going to find out sooner or later. So why not sooner." I got up from Syaoran's lap and stretched. "Well, if you two will excuse me, I'm going to take a quick shower than I'll ready to go."

"Yah right!" Yue and Syaoran said in unison.

"What is that suppose to mean?" I said putting my hand on my hips.

"The stuff you so after you take a shower is always a ten step process," stated Yue.

"First, you have to find the perfect outfit," said Syaoran.

"Second, you have to find the perfect make up," said Yue.

"Third, you have to put on your outfit."

"Fourth, you have to put on your make up."

"Fifth, you have to find the right necklace, rings, earrings, and bracelets."

"Sixth, you put them on."

"Seventh, you fix your hair."

"Eighth, you find your shoes on put them on,"

"Ninth, you find the right purse."

"And tenth, you check yourself in the mirror on last time."

"Then you are finally done about two to three hours later."

I smirked and looked at the clock. "Well then I should get started now shouldn't I?"

We all laughed as we went our separate ways to get ready.

"All right! All right! I'm done!" I said after Yue yelled me name for the tenth time.

"Thank you!" he said throwing up he arms and ploppong down on the couch.

"Well, don't you look cute," Syaoran said coming out of his room wearing a tight white shirt under a black button up and black jeans with white classic K-Swiss.

"Thanks," I said striking a pose. I was wearing a black off-the-shoulder blouse with silver side trimmings and a sliver crescent moon in the middle of it that showed off all the right curves perfectly, a black velvet mini skirt also with silver trimmings, and knee high black boots with silver leg warmers.

"She better look cute. She took three and a half hours this time!" Yue scolded glaring at me.

"Well I wanted to look extra special tonight," I said as I joined him on the couch.

"Oh and why is that?"

"This is they first time Syaoran and I will be seen as a real couple," I said looking over at my prince. He just gave me a warm smile and nodded.

"Well we better go. We don't want to be late," Yue said getting up and helping me up as well.

We headed for the door. I was in the middle and held both their hands having them represent my only family at the moment. We opened the door and gasped.

There in front of us was a basket filled with black rose petals. The petals looked like they were dripping with blood. These petals also surrounded the basket. Inside the basket was an opened box with a gold chain and a blood red ruby shaped heart pendent. The pendent had blood red rubies shaped as droplets coming from it. And on top of this was a card. The card read.

Gift one of thirteen, my lovely cherry blossom.

I hope you have some fun while it last.

I love you, Sakura.

Twelve more days and gift until we meet.

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I'm done with this chapter! I promise to all you fateful readers that I will have the next chapter up real soon. I also promise that it will not take as long as this chapter did.

Until the next chapter!