Full Summary: Sakura was your average well-loved girl that was graduating from medical school that year, and was she happy about it. She only had a year more of the torture of exams and waking up early in the mornings until she would finally be able to do what she really wanted – practice as a psychologist. But now that the exams for her third year had finally finished, she expected nothing out of the ordinary to happen to her. Just having her best friend/cousin move out of the apartment the two shared and attending her and her other best friend's wedding. Oh! And sharing the apartment with a new roommate, one of her cousin's fiancée's friends. A man named Li Syaoran. But who would have known this single man would turn her world upside down… along with all the expectations everyone had for her. Including her own.
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Love Over Lust?
Chapter Ten
Written by: SweetBabyGurl
Silence enveloped them as they walked to the store, their paces matching the other.
"So what did you want to talk to me about?" Sakura asked, tired of the silence.
"I never said…" Syaoran began.
"You didn't need to," Sakura cut him off. Syaoran let out a sigh before grabbing her hand, making her come to a halt. "We have to keep on moving. I don't want to be out here for too long."
"What are we?" Syaoran asked with a small nod as he kept on walking with Sakura.
"I am the Cards Mistress and you are the one who was supposed to try and take them from me, but that never did happen as Eriol foresaw," Sakura told him with a stern expression.
"What?" Syaoran asked, utterly confused.
"When I first opened the book, all of the cards but The Windy flew out, so I had to begin the process of capturing them and returning them to the book. While I was still capturing them, you were supposed to interfere. When you didn't we knew something was wrong, but moved on anyway," Sakura explained to him.
"So you're telling me we were supposed to meet before now?" Syaoran asked, not believing what he was told, but was given the affirmative by Sakura's nod. "What kind of crap is this?"
"Fate screwed up somewhere and now we have to pay the consequences. I didn't realize who you were until you said you were from the Li Clan. It only made sense that Eriol would tell you of all people, someone whom I had never met to come live with me, if you were him. But of course, this is what I know, and not what you want to know. So what do you want to know Li-kun," Sakura asked, taking the risk of glancing into his amber eyes; something she should not have done.
"Sakura please, come with me. I can't talk to you with your attention diverted like this," Syaoran told her, grasping her arm firmly but not painfully. Eyes downcast, she nodded, allowing him to lead her wherever he wanted her to go.
Sitting in a booth fit for two, Sakura sipped her hot chocolate quietly, waiting for Syaoran to begin. She stared at him momentarily, watching his large hands stir his mocha with the stir stick, looking into the cream coloured drink before taking a small sip and looking back up at her.
"I knew who you were from the day I arrived in Japan. So I thought I'd have some fun. My first impression was that you were too hot to be the Card Mistress, you looked weak," Syaoran began, looking her in the eyes, not missing the flash of anger in her eyes when he said the word weak. "I didn't really care about the fact that you had a boyfriend, there had been others that had boyfriends that I got rid of, but for you it wasn't so simple," he continued, leaning back in his chair.
"So you pretended to like me just to have some fun?" Sakura asked, her voice quivering slightly.
"That's how it started," Syaoran sighed. "But… I started to like you. Then, eventually," Syaoran continued.
"Don't say it. I hate mind games Li," Sakura cut him off for the second time, looking at the dark brown liquid in her cup.
"I grew to love you," Syaoran continued talking through her, despite her words. "No matter what title you have, I love you."
"Then what do we do about this now? You know we can't be together," Sakura whispered.
"Why not?" Syaoran questioned with a cocked eyebrow.
"Your family will hate me. They wanted to cards in their family, but I have them. Not you. The last thing they'll want is for me to be anywhere near you," Sakura told him.
"Well frankly," he told her, his voice a fragment above a whisper as he leaned in close to her face, "I don't care."
"Are you sure about this?" Sakura asked, removing her hand from her lap to the table. Syaoran immediately grabbed it with one hand and with the other tilted her face so he could see her eyes.
"Do you love me?" He asked softly, when he saw her nod he continued. "Then I'm sure." The two exchanged a small knowing smile before Sakura's cell phone rang, interrupting the moment.
"Moshi moshi Sakura speaking," Sakura answered before the muffled yelling of Touya was heard on the other end. "Hai, hai. We got a little sidetracked. We'll be home in an hour at the most. No! Kami Touya! You worry too much. Yeah, yeah love you too. Ja ne," Sakura replied in an exasperated voice.
"He thinks we're doing something ne?" Syaoran asked with a light smirk when she put her phone back in her pocket, making her smile. "Why not prove him right?" Syaoran asked with the same devilish grin making Sakura giggle before hitting him playfully on the arm. Getting up, Syaoran dropped a few dollar bills and taking her hand in his, walked to the grocery store.
"What could possibly be taking them so long!" Touya growled, pacing up and down before the door.
"Kinomoto-san, if you don't stop pacing so much you're going to ware a spot into the ground," Eriol told him mischievously.
"Listen here you four eyed freak. My baby sister is out there with some jerk!" Touya snapped.
"Touya-kun, they just went to the grocery store for crying out loud!" Tomoyo told her older cousin, trying to calm him down.
"But she's with that… that… that Chinese gaki!" Touya exclaimed, left eye twitching making Tomoyo and Eriol slowly back away from the elder man. Just at that moment, the trio heard muffled voices followed by the insertion of what sounded like a key before the loving couple, Sakura and Syaoran, stepped into the eerily quiet apartment.
"Ehhh, did we miss something?" Sakura asked nervously, placing the pizza she carried in her hands on the kitchen counter while Syaoran proceeded to place all the freshly bought groceries in their proper places.
"Was he just… holding… your… hand?" Touya asked, his trusty left eye acting up once more.
"Ano… Touya… did you want some ice cream? I want some ice cream! Let's all have ice cream! Oh! Will you look at the time! It's time-to-talk-with-Tomoyo-of-the-events-of-today time. See ya!" Sakura muttered quickly before grabbing the young woman's hand that let out a surprised yelp and ran into Sakura's bedroom.
"And people tell me my girlfriend's weird," Eriol told Touya dot-eyed. "They obviously haven't met your sister," he concluded before walking over to the TV set to watch his favourite television series. Of course this was a mistake. He left Touya and Syaoran alone.
Growling, Touya walked over the man, or as others would describe from their point of view, "fresh meat", grabbed his arm, making him stop placing the cookies in the cookie jar, and following the elder man outside getting ready for the yelling of his lifetime.
"So, what happened!" Tomoyo squealed sitting down on Sakura's bed.
"Well we were walking to the grocery store and I told him all about what Eriol told me about how he was supposed to interfere and even though he didn't we just kept on doing what we were supposed to," Sakura told her friend happily.
"And then?" Touya demanded, glaring daggers at his sister's new boyfriend.
"Then I asked her to come with me to this café and we had something to drink and talked things out. If you're wondering if I kissed her, I didn't… at that very moment," Syaoran replied with a smirk.
"And what is that supposed to mean?" Touya growled, making Syaoran smirk.
"We've kissed before," Sakura murmured shyly. "Several times."
"WHAT!" "KAWAII!" The two words were screamed simultaneously, making a sleeping Eriol jolt awake.
"Where's the fire!" He exclaimed rushing up and looking around. Finding none he fell back on the couch sound asleep.
TBC
Readers: Hey there everyone! That, was a pretty much pointless chapter. But it was long overdue. In the next chapter, we get into the good stuff, I guarantee it. Some of you said that this was starting to move a bit too fast, so I hope this helps slow it down a little. Thanks for sticking by this fic even though it's taking me a million years to write! I'll try and get another chapter out soon alright? Thanks for reading and don't forget to review! Ja ne!
SweetBabyGurl