Disclaimer: I don't own Card Captor Sakura.
Stuck With You
By: Lotus Dreams
Chapter 5: You Look Hot When You're Wet
Syaoran raised an eyebrow.
"You liked me?" he repeated. "So you liked me. Big deal. Don't you always like the person you date?"
"Get real," said Sakura angrily, "I don't mean just like. I mean LIKE like."
"And that makes a difference?"
"Look," cried Sakura, "We've gone our separate ways ever since we entered middle school, even though we joined the same teams. Volleyball, baseball, rugby, basketball, soccer - we've crossed paths occasionally but we had never really talked. But we always had this thing between each other."
"A 'thing'?"
"We went out with different people, but the both of us were still friends. We were still close."
"I still don't get it."
"Fine, you want it simple?" Sakura's vision started clouding over. "I loved you."
There was an awkward pause. Syaoran found his voice first.
"N-Nani?"
"I had loved you. You were my closest confidant, besides Tomoyo, who I could go to to talk to, my equal...I had loved you. I thought you were everything I wanted. You remember that elementary school crush I had on you? Multiply that by a thousand and that pretty much represents how I had felt about you. Remember when someone had stolen my bike, the birthday present from Touya? Remember how heartbroken I felt? Multiply that by two thousand and you get how I felt when you dumped me."
She was looking at him, her eyes boring into him. For some reason, the eyes looked way too green to him. Way too green. WAY WAY WAY too green. He looked away from her for the umpteenth time.
Sakura bit her lip. That feeling...that feeling of being betrayed, dumped, humiliated, used, all at the same time came all over again. She didn't hold back the tears this time. I don't care, she thought. If only they could see me now. Kinomoto Sakura, crying. What a sight.
"Hey," said Syaoran softly. "Don't cry."
"Leave me alone." She glared fiercely at the moon's reflection in the water, determined not to look at Syaoran.
"Sakura-chan..." His hand brushed her hair. She slapped it away, hard. Syaoran's hand drew back quickly; not because Sakura was known to have a short temper, but it was because his hand stung more than it should have.
"Don't touch me."
"Sakura-chan..." He reached for her hand. She took it back swiftly, glaring at Syaoran.
"I said DON'T TOUCH ME!"
"Sakura, you can't have a grudge against me forever!"
"I sure can."
"Sakura!"
"I can and I will." Sakura still did not look at him. "I can't ever forgive you for what you made me go through."
That hurt.
"Ever?" Syaoran whispered softly. His voice sent shivers down her spine.
"E-Ever," she managed to choke out. He was awfully close to her.
Then suddenly, his arms were enveloping her in a hug. She was so surprised, she almost lost her balance.
"Syaor - "
"Shh," whispered Syaoran. "Onegai." She relaxed. Slightly.
"I'm sorry," continued Syaoran. "I am so, so sorry for hurting you like that." He felt something wet on his shoulder. She was crying. He pulled her closer.
"Iie." Her voice was firm. "Let me go."
"Not this time."
"Quit with the cliched talk, and let go of me." She started struggling against him, but Syaoran refused to let go.
"Iie."
"SYAORAN!"
"IIE!"
"LET ME GO!"
"NO WAY!"
"LET ME - " Sakura screamed. She had pushed Syaoran away the exact same time he let her go, and tumbled into the water. Syaoran's eyes widened in horror.
"Sakura!" He could only see air bubbles for a couple of seconds, and then Sakura's head surfaced, her hair plastered to her head. Luckily, she had been wearing her life jacket.
"Get me outta here!" she yelled. "Now I'm even colder than before!" Syaoran gently paddled the boat a little closer to Sakura, and stretched both of his arms out towards her. "Grab onto me," he shouted back.
"Iie! Are you crazy?" Sakura yelled. "You're too far away!" Syaoran leaned forward a bit more. Just a bit.
"Gah, I hate this!" Sakura cried. "I already fell into the water once, I don't need to again!"
"Grab onto my arms, baka!" Syaoran yelled.
Sakura stretched her own arms, she really did. "I can't!" she whined.
And so, Syaoran leaned forward even MORE. Unfortunately, most of his weight was over the boat, and due to this, he waved his arms wildly before falling spectacularly into the water. Despite her position, Sakura laughed. When Syaoran's head appeared above water, spitting out water, she was still laughing.
"You should have seen the way you fell in," she spluttered. "My GOD, it was HILARIOUS!"
"Yeah, yeah," muttered Syaoran. "Come on, let's get back onto the boat." He grabbed onto the side of the boat, holding Sakura's hand. They clambered on, not without difficulty, and collapsed, exhausted, on the floor of the boat, facing each other. The next few moments were spent in silence.
"Hey,"said Syaoran finally.
"Hey." Sakura's reply was vague-sounding. Both of their eyes were directed at the other.
His hand reached for her hair, and he tucked it behind her ear. This time, she didn't slap him.
"You look hot when you're wet."
"I'll take that as a compliment."
"It is," whispered Syaoran. His hand remained on her cheek. Ever so slowly, he drew her face closer to him, and ever so gently, he kissed her. His lips were so soft, so delicate, Sakura didn't move at all, merely snaking her arm around his neck and she gave in.
"Mm..." murmured Sakura.
He kissed her again, gently, and his lips brushed her ear. "Aishiteru, Sakura," he whispered. She kissed him on the tip of his nose.
"Love you too, Syao-kun."
(A/N: Okay...you are going to hate me for what's going to happen next.)
Just then, a light shone onto their boat. A light OTHER than the moon's. On instinct, the two broke apart. Sakura shielded her eyes from the light with her hand, and saw a speedboat - well, speeding towards them. On it was Terada-sensei and some other people wearing uniforms and lifejackets.
"SAKURA-SAN! SYAORAN-SAN!" shouted Terada-sensei. "ARE YOU TWO ALRIGHT?"
They blinked twice and looked at each other. A small smile tugged at the corner of Syaoran's lips.
"Hai," Syaoran called back. "We're fine."
When they reached Ito Lake Hotel, many of the students were bursting to ask Sakura and Syaoran questions, but one glare from Terada-sensei shut them up. Then, he told them they could shower and change into other clothing, and go to bed straight away. "I imagine being stuck in a boat from 11 am to 11 pm is quite tiring," he told them. "Get some rest."
"But we're not tired," Sakura told Terada-sensei. Then, he led them away to a private corner.
"Listen," he whispered, "I reserved room 513 for you two on the fifth floor. We're staying on the second floor. I don't want the students asking questions or bothering you two, especially after an ordeal like that. Unfortunately, the hotel is full, and that was the only free room, so you two will have to share. I am very unsupportive of putting a male and a female in the same room to shower, but unfortunately, these are the circumstances. Do you two understand? Li-san, if I hear from Sakura that you were spying on her while in the shower, I will personally expel you from school, hear me?"
Syaoran bowed respectfully, smirking at Sakura. "Wouldn't dream of it." Sakura felt herself heat up.
"Good." He pushed them towards the elevator. "Now go!" They stumbled into the elevator, and the doors closed. Sakura whipped around to see a grinning Syaoran.
"Aren't you happy."
"Oh yeah."
"You areso not going to be in the same room when I shower."
"'Course not."
"Because if you do," Sakura threatened, "I will punch your lights out."
"I'll try to restrain myself," said Syaoran innocently. "I mean, after all, youdo look pretty hot when you're wet."
He entered room 513 with a bruise on his head.
Of course, nothing perverted happened that night, although Syaoran kept cracking dirty jokes at Sakura, which annoyed the hell out of her.
She had put on a black tank top with black shorts, and Syaoran was lounging casually on one of the two beds. "I think these clothes are a bit too thin to wear today," said Sakura. "Don't you think so, Syaoran?"
"Naw, they're fine."
"Sure?"
"Hai. But you know...those clothes would look even better...in a heap by my bed." Another bruise was formed on his head, as Sakura had thrownthe calendarhanging on the wall at his head.
"Shut up with the dirty thoughts, will you?" growled Sakura. "I'm growing sick and tired of them."
"I'm not."
"SHUT. THE. HELL. UP."
"NO." On the nighttable, Sakura had left her necklace on it when she went to shower. He picked it up, and twirled it, smiling at Sakura. She eyed him suspiciously.
"Put it down."
"I don't think I will." She stepped closer towards him. He shook his head, still smiling.
"PUT IT DOWN, BAKA!"
"NEVER!" She grabbed his arm, attempting to snatch the necklace back, but he merely tossed it to his other hand. So, she used her other hand and grabbed for his left hand, and by then, she was almost on top of him.
"LET GO, YOU DUMBASS!"
"NO WAY!" yelled Syaoran gleefully. They wrestled each other for a bit (after all, they were top athletes and of practically equal strength), until Syaoran wrestled Sakura to the bed. "Got you now," he breathed.
"I want my necklace back."
"Never. Ever. Ever," he whispered. Then, he smirked, leaned closer...
...And Tomoyo walked right in!
Both of them gave a startled shriek and Syaoran leapt off Sakura as if burned by hot coal. Tomoyo's eyes widened and her hand flew to her mouth.
"Kami-sama," she gasped, noticing that Sakura was only dressed in a tank top and shorts, and Syaoran a T-shirt and shorts, (it was fall) and gulped, getting quite the wrong idea. "Gomen nasai, I am SO sorry if I was interrupting anything, I just wanted to check up on Sakura, I overheard Terada-sensei say you guys were in room 513 - um, I'll go now, you guys can - um - continue - " With that, she backed out of the room in a hurry, failing to hide her wide grin.
"Iie!" shouted Sakura. "Tomoyo! Come baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!"
Syaoran was looking angrily at the spot where Tomoyo had been a second before. "How come every time we get to the exciting part, we always get interrupted?" he said crossly. Sakura glared at him.
"What exciting part?" she demanded. "There's nothingexciting about it."
"You sure about that?" He smirked. "It's not like you pushed me off or whatever."
And of course, with a remark like that, Sakura couldn't exactly control herself. To spare the details, let's just say Syaoran went to bed withaverybad headache.
Bwahaha. I loved writing this chapter. Now, please review! The next chapter might not come until June, with all the work I have. GOMEN! T-T