K guys I really wanna make this chapter longer than my last cause that one was very short. Anyways here we go!

Chapter 7- The Day After

The next morning, Syaoran and Sakura both woke up and stretched. Of course, with them being so close together, both of their arms hit each other. Both of them, too tired to remember how or why they ended up in a bathroom together, looked at each other starngley. That is , of course, until Sakura saw Syaoran's bandages and Syaoran saw Sakura's costume. Sakura noticed that he needed to be rebandaged, the old ones had already absorbed as much blood as they could.

"Here, lemme see," Sakura took off his bandages one by one, and for each one Syaoran gave her a wince. "Oh come on don't be a baby." In response Syaoran put a bandage on her nose. "HEY YOU CHEATER!" She put a bandage on his arm where it wasn't needed and continued to bandage him seriously. He, of course, put a bandage on her hand. She gave him a glare, and they both went on an all out assault on the bandages. Though she succeeded in getting all the spots that needed to really be bandaged, both he and she were covered in them.

"Dare you to take all of them off," Syaoran said.

"YOU KIDDING! You know how much that would HURT!" Syaoran rolled his eyes. "Now, we need to do something about your eyes…. Got it!" She looked in the cabinet and found some black eyeliner.

"I'm not a girl…." He protested.

"Girls aren't the only ones who wear it! Now some here, " She smeared it to where it went under his eyes to make the bruises look like smeared eyeliner. "Just to fit in… I'll have Tomoyo force Eriol to wear it too…." They both put on long and baggy clothes, Syaoran for obvious reasons and Sakura so no one would see her bandages and think that something was wrong with her.

"Anyways, we need to get to school...we're gonna be late…." He and Sakura hurried out of the door and off to school. Everyone stared at Syaoran, many laughed and pointed, whispering rude things as they passed by. Syaoran glared at all of them, they had no idea how real pain felt, how it felt to be hated and/or laughed at for something beyond your control. He envied them, and yet he was glad he wasn't like them, so cold-hearted and judgmental. Sakura didn't seem to be phased by any of this, she just kept walking until they found Eriol, and Tomoyo, smiling the whole time. Tomoyo agreed and forced Eriol to wear and smear the eyeliner.

"What a dork…." One guy said as he passed the 4 of them.

"Say what you want, I say it's hott!" Sakura smiled, and Tomoyo nodded.

The guy gave them a weird look, the grabbed the first girl in sight and asked to borrow whatever it is that they put under their eyes. By the end of the day, every boy had smeared eyeliner under their eyes.

"I think we've started a trend," Sakura elbowed Syaoran as school ended. He and Sakura had just finished getting out of ISS for running out of school the day before. They both went their separate ways, Syaoran went over to Eriols and Sakura and Tomoyo went over to Sakura's house.

"So," her dad asked as they arrived, " where do you want to go for dinner?"

"Cheddars!" She and Tomoyo shouted as Touya simply shrugged with an 'I don't care' look.

"Cheddars it is then, " her father smiled. They arrived and took their seats. As they were ordering, Sakura could've sworn she saw a boy with chestnut hair. She got up quietly and snuck up behind the boy. She put her hands over his eyes.

"Guess who?" the boy broke away and turned around to see who it was. Sakura was pale- that was NOT Syaoran.

" Sakura?" Sakura jumped and turned around to see the REAL Syaoran staring at her strangely.

"I thought you- I mean I - what are you doing here?" she decided to ask instead.

"Eriol and Nakuru brought me here." She saw that he was still wearing the eyeliner.

"Uh-huh, suuuree," she said slyly. " I bet you're spying on me!"

"Me? Spying on you? HA! How do I know you aren't spying on me?" He gave her a suspicious look.

"I have witnesses, all you have is Eriol and Nakuru!"

"They're witnesses!"

"No-uh, they don't count, they're probably spying with you! My dad and Touya are here as well, so I win!"

"Oh," Tomoyo had just walked up and joined in the conversation, " hello Syaoran, Sakura, did you intend on meeting him here?"

"No, " she grinned, " He, Eriol, and Nakuru are all here spying in us."

"Ahhh I see," Tomoyo grinned as well.

"I don't think that either group was spying on the other," Eriol joined in, holding Tomoyo to his chest. "I believe that fate brought us together." His eyes sparkled.

"Speak for yourself," Nakuru said from a nearby booth, holding a pair of binoculars to her eyes. "Touya is so perfect…." She drooled. Everyone fell anime style.

"Why must we ALWAYS fall like THAT!" Syaoran demanded. "Why can't we just fall like NORMAL people!"

"Because we're special like that!" Sakura smiled. They all went to their booths and ate, and left at the same time.

"Hey Touya," Sakura said before leaving, "How come you aren't wearing eye liner? Every other guy in school is."

"Because I don't like it, " was the only reply.

Nakuru, who just happened to be behind them with Eriol and Syaoran, jumped up.

"Oh I know I hate that! It's a major turn off," she agreed.

"Sakura," Touya whispered, "give me ALL THE EYELINER YOU HAVE!" He grabbed her eyeliner and ran to the bathroom. Nakuru looked confused as everyone else laughed.

"Well," Fujitaka said as they were in the car, "we also need to go to the hardware store for some new shelves." They arrived, and immediately Sakura and Tomoyo ran off to go play whatever game they could think of. They decided on hide-n-go-seek, and Sakura was hiding. She got on her knees, and after about 2 minutes, someone put their hands over her eyes.

"Guess who?"

"Ummm Billie Joe Armstrong?" The person let go and she turned around to see Syaoran there hiding with her. "Syaoran!" she whispered and gave him a hug. "What are you doing here? Are you following me again? Oh no, I think I have a stalker!"

"Shut up, you'll get yourself caught!" he put his finger on her mouth. She blushed lightly, then laughed softly.

"Hey, we're living a song."

"We tend to do that a lot huh? Which one is it this time?" he saw a shadow cast over both of them and looked up only to see Tomoyo. "RUNNN!" Grabbing her hand, they ran through the store until they were certain that they ad lost her and that they wouldn't be found any time soon.

"Now we're REALLY living that song!" she whispered and laughed quietly.

"Which song?" he asked again. Sakura took a deep breath.

'Children behave
that's what they say when we're together
and watch how you play
they don't understand
and so we're

Running just as fast as we can
holdin' on to one another's hand
tryin' to get away into the night
and then you put your arms around me
and we tumble to the ground
and then you say
I think we're alone now
there doesn't seem to be anyone around
I think we're alone now
the beating of our hearts is the only sound
Look at the way
we gotta hide what we're doin'
'cause what would they say
if they ever knew
and so we're

Running just as fast as we can
holdin' on to one another's hand
tryin' to get away into the night
and then you put your arms around me
and we tumble to the ground
and then you say

I think we're alone now
there doesn't seem to be anyone around
I think we're alone now
the beating of our hearts is the only sound'

Syaoran blushed. "Yah, I guess that is kinda what we're doing, huh?" he wanted to smile, but it was too hard. After forgetting how to do something, it was hard to remember. He tried for a few moments, but after trying and failing he gave up.

"Oh Sakura……" a voice said, excitement in their voice. "Guess whaaat?"

Sakura turned around slowly, not wanting to believe who it was. Her eyes widened as her worst fears were realized. "YOU AND SYAORAN ARE IT!" It was Tomoyo, and with her was, of course, Eriol. She and Eriol went to hide as she convinced Syaoran to play with them and they began to count.

"Just another day for us," they both thought and smiled as they finished counting and went to go find their friends together.