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"I think Honda-san wants to join the cooking club." Yuki looked back to where Tomoyo and Tohru were chatting. Kyo looked over to his cousin and nodded.
"Yeah, she was talking about that earlier. I think Sakura mentioned something about it too."
"I noticed a sign for a karate club." Yuki was looking straight ahead, but Kyo huffed.
"Yeah, I was thinking about it." He stopped, "How come you're not picking a fight with me?"
"I'm tired Kyo, I don't feel like it." Yuki stopped as well and crossed his arms over his chest. "I've had my fill of yelling today."
"She told you." Kyo smiled.
"Wipe that grin off your face."
"You gonna make me?"
"Maybe…"
"Guys." Tomoyo stepped between the cousins, making them both back off a space to avoid touching.
"Wow, nice move." Tohru laughed. "It took me a while to figure that one out." She and Tomoyo continued walking together, laughing as the boys turned to watch them.
"How do they do that?"
"I dunno."
"You feel like fighting?"
"Not at the moment."
"Good, I don't feel like getting kicked in the head."
"Why are you going to the brats place?"
"Why? Because we can talk there without you interrupting us every three seconds, that's why." Sakura slid the Clow book into her bag and strapped on her rollerblades, "We're just going to talk magic then maybe eat some food. I'll be home before eleven, since you have to work and dads on a dig its just nicer to be with my boyfriend than alone in the house! I know you don't like him, but don't you think its time for you to get used to the fact that he's in my life to stay?" She looked up into her brothers eyes and frowned a little. "It makes me sad that you don't like each other."
"Just go." Toya sighed, messed up her hair a little and pulled her up into a hug.
"Ok. Have a good night at work."
"Sakura." He paused as she skated down the walkway.
"Yeah?"
"I'll work on tolerating him." Toya sighed, "Have fun." When she smiled he shrugged, "Go."
"Love you." Sakura waved and bent her head against the wind.
"Love you…" he shook his head, and when she was out of his sight he admitted to himself, if noone else, "and so does the brat."
They were sitting on his living room floor, bowls of pasta forgotten as they bent their heads over the gigantic tomes Li's mother had sent from Hong-Kong.
"She didn't recognize it when I told her about the pendant, but she sent over everything on curses that we have."
"That was really nice of her."
"Well, she really likes you." Li looked up and smiled at her soft,
"Pwee?"
"When you went to Hong Kong she told me that she felt you had a large heart and an open mind." Sakura blinked, but felt her shoulders raise a little with pride and happiness.
"She's beautiful. I really liked her, Syaoran."
He slammed a book cover down, "Nothing in this one." He muttered and took another from the pile.
"LI!" Sakura looked up from her book and took out the amulet to compare it against the page. "Its not exact…" Li got up to lean against her back, looking down at the same page. His breath tickled her ear.
As he breathed in her hair his eyes followed her finger. It was a square pendant instead of round, green jewel instead of shimmering pool of blue, but the symbols seemed the same.
"It says its an amulet to keep curses for distribution." His finger joined hers on the page, following the text. "Once used by dark magics to harness powers until they were ready to be used."
"Yes, but I don't think this is the same thing."
"Maybe its not to carry curses and pass them out…" Li looked down, "it looks like the symbols in the picture are inverted."
"Maybe… Syaoran…"
"Maybe its used to keep curses."
"Like store them?"
"Like capture them, and keep them from being used…"
"Syaoran, do you think?"
"Why else would it come here, to you, at this exact moment in time?" Li pulled Sakura to her feet.
"Nothing in magic is coincidental, you taught me that Syaoran."
"You are a beautiful person. My mother was right." Li leaned down to kiss her gently.
"Mothers are always right." She accepted his lips and leaned into his arms. When she was with him, nothing was wrong, and everything could be fixed.
"Hmmm…"
"What?" she opened her eyes as he leaned back slightly.
"Stay with me." He kissed her, "Don't go home." He kissed her again, nibbling on the corner of her mouth. He felt it when she smiled.
"Toya gets off work at eleven."
"Damn it." He brought his lips fully onto hers and clamped his arms around her waist, molding her to his body.
"Next weekend he's helping the debate team for the big city meet." Her arms wound around behind his neck and brought his head to cradle at her neck. He nibbled at her soft skin and groaned as she laughed. "Have dinner with me then." She unwound herself from his arms and picked up the book. "Do you mind?"
"Naw." Li flopped down onto the couch.
"Love you." She bent down to kiss him. A few minutes later he released her lips.
"Love you too."
