Disclaimer: Still not owning CCS…

Summary: You started out as friends… best of friends to be exact, not knowing nor sure of how you really feel for each other. Then, suddenly, a girl appears and she starts drifting you apart from each other. Worst of all… she's your sister. How can you admit how you feel for him then? How… without breaking your own sister's heart?

A/N: Yelan here is not the mother of an heir or anything like that okay? And though she seems a little off… her character I mean, I gotta go through it for the story. This is totally an AU… and could anybody tell me what's OOC or something like that… please? Thanks!


EVERYTHING YOU ARE

Chapter 2: Blue Rose

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'Why of all people?' she thought in disbelief. "S-Syaoran…kun?" she manage to ask, her eyes widened.

Yuri nodded, not knowing how to respond to her sister's reaction. "Thanks again sis!" she simply shouted as she walks out the room, practically jumping for joy.

Sakura watched her leap out the door. She lay down her bed and sighed deeply. "What am I going to do…" she whispered tiredly. 'He'll find out… I'm sure of it…' she added in thought as she drifted of to sleep.

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'How long is it for a girl to get dressed? She had never done this before though…' Syaoran thought, irritated of the waiting he had been doing.

It was Saturday morning and he and Sakura had planned a skateboarding and roller blading practice at seven o' clock that morning. He had been waiting at her doorstep for about half an hour and had rung the doorbell about four times in a row already, and still, no sign of Sakura ever peeking, what more going out.

Syaoran was already stomping his foot when the Japanese door opened.

"At last…" he exclaimed but was cut off when he saw the hazel eyes. "Yuri?" he trailed off, surprise of who had just gotten out instead of the one he was impatiently waiting for.

Yuri, who was in reality, was Sakura, wearing the contact lenses and was doing the favor her sister had asked of her, shrugged at the sight of him, preparing how she would act around him that morning.

"Yeah… Sakura can't make it, she's sick today… so…" she started as she roller bladed around him, imitating her sister's tone of voice. "Shall we go then? … well, unless you don't wanna go with me…" she added as she forced a smile on her face. She was hoping Syaoran would not go with her and decline the change of... er… dates.

Syaoran's eyebrows met, sensing something fishy was going on. "Let's go… Yuri," he simply answered as he smiles, forcingly visible.

When they reached the park, Syaoran did some tricks with his skateboard, and Yuri with her roller blades. Most of the morning just went on like that. Each of them was clearly unsure of how to act around each other. Understandably for Syaoran because it was Sakura that he is used to going out with not her sister. And as for Sakura…er… Yuri, its not like she's not used to being around him, its just that she's not used to being around him as her sister.

"So, what's your favorite color, Li?" she asked with an unease face, a stupid question. 'What can I ask him anyway… what's his name? Like I know all this already…' she complained in thought, forcing, still a smile on her face.

Syaoran almost laughed at the question loudly but had managed to held back. "I dunno… green perhaps…" he shyly answered as he took a sip on his can of root beer he had bought for both of them a minute before they took a sit on one of the park's benches.

Yuri nodded and took a sip from her own can.

"So, I realized… you're not cool around me… am I pressuring you?" she asked casually as she tries to tease Syaoran's sudden kindness, and almost forgetting that she was Yuri that day, giving way on who she really was a little.

Syaoran noticed the sudden attitude change, feeling that he was indeed with Sakura.

"Nah…" he simply managed to answer as he shooks his head. "It's just that, I'm used to being with Sakura a lot and not… well… you… Yuri," he added as he giggled between lines.

Sakura felt her cheeks blush a little. She can't help it. The charming giggle made her little attracted, almost feeling what the other girls are feeling when Syaoran smiles at them.

'Well, it is how he made girls fall for him… wonder why he doesn't do that when I'm the one his with…' she wondered as she ignores her blushing.

She shook the thought off, a weird, sinking feeling coming over her. Racingly, she finally realized she was blushing and tried to shook it off as well.

'Oh well, it's not me blushing… it's Yuri,' she gave up, assuring herself she would be embarrassed about it later.

Syaoran noticed the shrugging but simply ignored it, not wanting to add to the uneaseness they both have bee having the whole morning.

"Let's go… I'll walk you home," he offered as he smiles.

"Sure…" she simply answered with a nod.

When they reached the house, Syaoran bid her goodbye with another of his charming smiles. Frankly, it was all he did. "Say hello to Yuri… I mean, Sakura for me, okay?" he plainly said, waving his hand at her.

Sakura simply nodded, sweat dropping and entered the house and into the real Yuri's room.

Yuri literally leaped out of her bed and ran towards Sakura who slowly opened her door.

"So, how did it go?" was the welcome Sakura got the moment she entered in.

Sakura shrugged unnoticably before answering.

"It was… okay, I guess" she simply answered as she went into the bathroom to remove the contact lenses.

Yuri moaned at the very simple answer, technically, she was expecting way more than that.

"What do you mean okay, sis… be specific please?" she pleaded, imitating the voice of a little child with the word please.

"Well, it's okay as in… we talked, we bladed, we talked, we drank soda… that's about it…" Sakura defended her answer.

Yuri pouted.

"But I think I did gave him a hint that Yuri likes him so…" Sakura explained as she walks out of the bathroom with her own original emerald green eyes.

Yuri nodded, still with a pout and a that'll-do-for-now facial expression.

"Thanks sis… 'till next time I guess…" she finally replied gratefully, assuming that there will be a next time.

Sakura sighed as she went out the room and into the kitchen, downstairs.

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'I can't believe she'd think I'd fall for that,' Syaoran thought as he walked home, skateboarding smoothly on the sidewalk.

Thinking of how long he and Sakura had been friends and how long they have been keeping each other company made him realize that there is still too much to know about his best friend. That she is so gullible for instance was a big surprise for him.

When he reached his house, he walked silently to the door and opened it. He threw his sweater on the couch, flopped right next to it, opened the television and searched for something worth watching. He got nothing else to do until later that day when he would raid the mall for a new CD.

"Syaoran, could you help me in the garden, dear?" his mother, Yelan Li shouted from their backyard.

She was the only parent Syaoran had left after his father died when he was 5 years old. She had long black hair, slightly graying with old age at 38, and brown eyes, clear and vibrant. She is a loving, caring, giving, and tolerant mother and wife, and a nature-loving and open-minded person. She is a hard-working pediatrician who still finds time for home activities and events. Working in her garden always make her company and has kept a close bond with her only son, Syaoran.

Syaoran sat up straight and grabbed the remote control at the sound of her voice. He has always been obedient of her.

"Sure thing mom… be right there," he shouted back sweetly as he turned the television off.

"So, what are you planting, ma?" he asked as he bent towards his mother who is loosing up the soil the moment he got out of the house.

Yelan turned to Mark with a sweet face.

"I was thinking of red roses, dear…" she explained.

Syaoran nodded, his face visibly thinking.

"But you can plant the flower of your choice…" she added, realizing her son's sudden interest, looking up to her handsome son's face. "What would you like?"

Syaoran stayed quiet for a moment before answering the question his mother had thrown at him.

"I think I'll be off with blue ones… do you have those?" he asked as he picked up the rake to clean off any dried leaves on the ground.

"Blue what? …Roses?" Yelan asked him to be sure.

Syaoran nodded.

"That's pretty hard to find. Where would you look for one?" she added warmly, thinking as well where to find her son's desired roses.

"I dunno ma, but I'll find one," Syaoran replied, determination in his voice. "Can I go out to look for some?" he asked politely, laying the rake back on the ground.

His mother nodded.

Syaoran smiled and walked out of the garden, into the house, and out of the gate thinking that trying to find the roses, it also means he has to cancel his raid at the mall that afternoon.

'It'll be worth it,' he reminded himself in thought.

"Wait…" Yelan stopped, turning to the exact place where he son had disappeared. "Isn't that…" her eyes widened. A meaningful smile appeared on her lips. 'I think my boy has a crush…' she giggled in thought.

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"We don't have blue ones, Syaoran… that's pretty hard to find here in Tomoeda," Ray, the old flower shop owner down the street exclaimed.

He was a family friend and his gray and shabby hair and hazel eyes always reminded him of his dad. Ray was his father figure. "Why of all colors son?" he asked curiously.

"Nothing… just for a friend…" he explained cheerfully as he walks away. "Thanks anyway Ray-san…" he said politely as he closes the door behind him.

Ray chuckled in his cranky voice meaningfully, shaking his head.

"Kids today… they're not satisfied with bouquets anymore, they prefer a whole garden of it already," he commented as he goes back at the stock room behind the office.

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"That's the fifth one already… where am I gonna find a blue rose…" Syaoran thought helplessly as he walks towards the last flower shop in the city. "Better try this last one… and hope for the best…" he murmured as he entered the classic designed store.

The walls were designed with vines af numerous kinds and the floor was filled with pots of huge flower plants as well as the tall shacks only, it was filled with little ones. The place looked more a garden from Mythology books than a shop.

"Do you have blue roses here?" he asked the lady in front of the office, as soon as he entered.

The woman was visibly Chinese, like him, and smiled at him when she turned to him.

"Let me check inside okay?" she asked as she enters the stock room.

"Please let there be some left…" he kept murmuring to himself as he waits for the sales lady who was still searching at the stock room.

After a few minutes of raiding the surprisingly huge stock room they had, the lady walked out of the room holding three, small, black, plastic pot with blue roses in her hands.

"You're in luck sir, we have three more left, enough for a homemade garden," the lady exclaimed as she wrapped the exotic flower and hands it over to Syaoran.

Syaoran's face lit up as he paid for the flowers. He cheerfully went out of the shop and whistled all through out his walk home.

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"Did you find any of the flowers you wanted son?" Yelan asked as soon as Syaoran was with her at their backyard.

"Sure did mom," Syaoran replied cheerfully, remembering how far he had walked just to find them as he loosen his side of the garden. "Although, it did get me across town to get three."

"That's great!" Yelan exclaimed as she continued with her own work.

Syaoran excitedly started placing the plants after loosening the soil and removing the plants from the black, plastic, container pots.

'She's gonna be surprised ones these flowers bloom…' he thought happily as he patted the soil of one of the three blue roses.


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