Hello there, long time no see. You know, I have wrtten this story to chapter 10. Quiet long progress isn't it? I'm editing each chapter for more than twice in a row to get the perfect line. But I guess each time I reread the chapter, there must be some spot that I find unsatisfying and I have to change and change the almost exact same spot in the chapter!. Well, spare the too perfectionist me. Well, here is the second chapter of the story. Hope you enjoy it!
Chapter 2
(Saturday, Syaoran's Apartment, 09.02 PM)
"So, Xiao Lang, how's it going with our new Blossom?" asked Meiling from her computer, which she had been working on since 08.00 am that day.
"Blossom?" asked Fei Mei, who had just came out from the kitchen bewildered. "Since when did you two start calling her 'Blossom'?"
"Since our plane got in this town!" replied Meiling. "Oh no. Since I got rumors about this 'blossom' we're assigned to. But no. It was since we got the assignment, exactly when he was reading her report! He said, 'Wow, this girl is a total babe.'" She burst out into giggles.
"Hey, I never heard you give compliments to girls, Xiao Lang," commented Fei Mei, crossing her hands. "This is truly a good thing to tell at home."
"Oh God, no, please don't," replied Syaoran from the couch he was lying on. He stuffed his head onto the pillow.
"Why? I think that is one good news for the family. Xiao-Lang giving compliments for a girl."
"I didn't give compliments to her!"
"Yes you are."
"No I don't"
"Oh, come on. Why can't you just admit it? It's not that hard, you know. Besides, I knew you have a thing for her the second I saw you looking at that girl." Meiling made a thinking stance. "It was like a look of concern, worry, and at the same time the look of caring."
"I'm not looking at her like that!" he exclaimed. "I know you just made that up, Meiling. So stop the bull."
"You know, I think this Kinomoto girl is kinda different from other," commented Fei Mei. "It's like she has some kind of charm in her. And maybe she isn't some kind of squealing girls when around Xiao Lang."
Meiling snapped her finger, "I completely agree about that. By the way, why are you here, Syaoran? Aren't you supposed to be watching her?"
"She is home right now. Yesterday when Yanagizawa-san invited us to the cinema, she said she had to stay home because her father and brother are going to be home late. And yes, I had verified it."
"You put a transmitter on her?" Fei Mei asked.
"Of course. I put it on her watch that she always wears anywhere she goes. She even wears it in her house. So if she got out the bound, an alarm on my watch will go off. Moreover, I have implanted a bug in her house."
"Mm..hmm that's quite a good idea of yours, I think. However, I still didn't approve to that, Sakura-san could've take off her watch and got out the house. That way, you won't ever know she had gotten out of the house."
"Hey hey, listen you guys. I just received an intel from the HQ," cut Meiling. "An organization-identified as the Cage-is seeking ways to get hold of the Destructive Angels. And they have started the operation to take control of these girls. It says here that the operation started... Oh my God, it's today, exactly 9 minutes and 17 seconds from now."
"WHAT! Are you kidding me?" Syaoran jumped up from the couch and ran outside his apartment towards Kinomoto residence.
"See? Told him," she muttered. "Hey Xiao Lang, Don't forget to wear your microphone!" exclaimed Fei Mei while taking off her apron and got her gun from her room. "I don't know what makes him so stupid. Usually he isn't like this."
"It's already positive that the Cage is in Tomoeda. However, we still don't know of their whereabouts—wait, there is a van heading towards her house. Xiao Lang is still ahead of them, though," reported Meiling.
"Good, keep me posted then. I will cover Xiao Lang from outside. How long it'll gonna take that vehicle to get to the Kinomotos?" she said, putting a microphone in her ear.
"They will reach the house in 5 minutes 12 seconds from now. I'll report to you two from here."
(Kinomoto Residence, 09.10 pm)
Sakura was humming songs while she waited for the clothes to get laundered in the washing machine. Earlier this evening, her brother and his best friend, Yukito, had dropped at home to eat dinner. They both had to work at 08.30 pm. Late shift, they said. She had got a phone call from Tomoyo asking if she really didn't want to go to the cinema. She had answered the question regretfully saying that she still couldn't come because if she did, there is no one who will take care of the house and do the cleaning. Then Tomoyo asked if she needed some company in home because if she did, she would cancel her date with Eriol and accompany her. Sakura smiled to herself remembering how nice it was for her best friend to do that. If there is someone she wanted to protect the most after her father and brother, she was sure that the answer would be Tomoyo.
Suddenly the doorbell rang once. She thought quizzically, who would rang the bell at this hour? Her father or brother would never ring the bell because she knew they always bring the key. 'Maybe it is Tomoyo,' she thought. Then again, Tomoyo will always ring the doorbell twice in a row. She peeked at the door and surprised to see Syaoran standing on the doorway with pale expression.
She opened the door and raised her eyebrows, annoyed. "What are you doing here?"
Syaoran scratched his head, "I, umm, wondering if you… want to take a walk to the park with me?"
"You already knew that I can't go. I have to stay at home." Sakura crossed her arms and leaned at her doorway.
"No, please. It's just a little while. Probably just some…" he glanced at his watch. "12 minutes from now!"
"Does it need to be that exact? And no, I can't. Sorry," the she swing her door to slam it in Syaoran's face. But before that, Syaoran grabbed the door to prevent it from closing.
"Xiao Lang! Don't waste anymore time!" said Meiling's voice in his ear.
"Please, just hear me." He continued with a serious tone, "I need you to come with me right now. I promise it won't be too long."
"I said I couldn't, right? Do I need to be clearer?" she snapped, then raised her voice, "And if you don't mind, I want you to leave this house immediately."
"Hey, please. You are taking too long. Just go with me. I will get you home before ten. I promise."
"Are you-," her words were cut by Syaoran clamping her mouth when she was going to shout at him.
"Shhh..." he hesitated a moment before sweeping Sakura to his arms and brought her to his apartment with Sakura shrieking in rage.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?" Sakura exclaimed when they got in his apartment.
"Sorry, I just had to do that." Syaoran popped on the couch and sighed, "If you please sit down and let me explain some things for you."
"No, I wanna go home," she crossed her arms, but sat on the couch either way.
"You can't be in your house for at least until tomorrow."
"WHAT? That way my brother and father would have come home and they would be worried if they found out I wasn't home, especially in an apartment of a jerk like you!"
"We already told your family, Kinomoto-san. It's all have been taken care of," said a voice from one of the rooms in the apartment. A second later, came Meiling in her black outfit, black knee-length skirt and a black T-shirt.
Sakura narrowed her eyes, "You are?"
Meiling smiled, "Please to present myself, Li Meiling. I'm Xiao Lang's cousin. However, to other people, I am his sister. It's nice to meet you, Kinomoto-san."
Sakura didn't give a reply. "I don't know what you two are up to, I want an explanation why are you keeping me hostage here."
"We are not keeping you hostage here." He glared at her.
"Yes, you are. What is it that you called when carrying someone to a place out of the person's will?"
"It's for your own good!"
"It isn't when you force me to go here without my understanding."
"I've told you to understand."
"Kinomoto-san, there are some things that you have to know before you hear all of this," said Meiling, trying to got off the idea of seeing the couple got into a nasty fight.
"Yes, she's right." Syaoran sighed.
Meiling walked towards Sakura and took a seat beside her. Then she looked at Syaoran, "Fei Mei is at the house. She said she haven't encountered them. She'll be back as soon as she reported to the HQ."
Syaoran nodded, then looked at Sakura, "Well then, are you ready for it?"
"Never more prepared than I am now."
Meiling sighed and took a deep breath, "At first, we were thinking to keep this as a secret from you. However, after this incident," she glared at Syaoran, "which our good boy here screwed up, we decided that we cannot keep this anymore from you. Your father and brother will be given false information about this, and you will not tell them what the real reason is until we determined the time."
Sakura nodded, taking in the stern situation she was in. "I understand the situation. But why do I have to keep this information a secret? And what are these all about, really?"
"We are not what you think you are. We are spies, Kinomoto-san. We work for the ISS, the International Spy Society."
"Yeah, I figured," she shrugged.
"It all started with..." they explained their objective and reasons why they are at Tomoeda, Japan.
"The Cage?" Sakura asked after they had finished their explanation.
Meiling tilted her head, "Yes, why? Does that ring a bell?"
"I think I've heard the name before, though I'm not sure where. It was already a long time ago, I think. Anyway, when are you going to send me back home? My father and my brother aren't going to be okay if I left them too long."
"She is more decent than you are, Xiao Lang," Meiling commented, not looking at Syaoran.
Syaoran raised his eyebrows, "Are you blaming me for this?"
Meiling smirked, "I just agree with Fei Mei. You shouldn't be too careless."
"Okay, I'm sorry I screwed up. But at least I got her here safe, right? And even if I was there, she would end up here, anyway," Syaoran said lazily.
"No need to be offended, Big Wolf," said Fei Mei's voice behind him. "I see that you have arrived here safely, Kinomoto-san. I am Li fei Mei, Xiao Lang's oldest sister by the way. It's very pleasant to meet you."
Sakura smiled a little, "Pleased to meet you too, Li-san. Just call me Sakura."
"Your family has been informed that there was a burglary at your house. However, before the burglar taken anything from the house, the police had already come. Thanks to your immediate report and Xiao Lang who were passing in front of your house when the burglar entered the house," explained Fei Mei.
"Did you tell them where I am?"
"We told them that you have a shock staying in the house, so I, Xiao Lang's mother, brought you here for comfort. Your family should be here any minute now."
"Well, I guess I better change my clothes now," said Meiling.
"Sakura-san, can you act as if you really enjoy it here? So your family will let you stay here until tomorrow. It is dangerous for you to go back to your own house" Fei Mei sat down on the couch.
Sakura thought or a moment, "Okay, but how about my father and brother?"
"Don't worry. We have put an extra security around your house."
Sakura looked at Fei Mei straight in her eyes. After a while of staring, she nodded. "I understand."
Fei Mei smiled, "Thank you. Sorry for giving you much trouble, Sakura-san." Fei Mei got up the sofa. "I guess I should change my clothes, too." Then she left Sakura and Syaoran alone.
Sakura looked up at the amber-eyed boy after a moment of silence, "I guess I owe you an apology, huh?"
"Nah, it's all right. My job," he waved his hand in the air.
"No, really. I thought you were just another jerk trying to get every girl in town."
Syaoran smirked, "Yeah, right. But what makes you think that way?"
"Hmm, the way you asked me to walk with you to the park? I think it was called asking out a girl."
"Yes, that qualified I think," he nodded in approval then he sighed, "You know what? I had worked in this Society since I was 15. However, until now, I never have an assignment as big as the Destructive Angels, which means there was never an assignment as big as you."
"Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that," Sakura put up a mocking sad face, then she asked. "Am I really that special?"
"I guess. You just look like an ordinary girl, you know that right?" Syaoran commented.
"And so are you. Even though you are a little bit weird around people."
"Don't bring up that subject, please," Syaoran replied sarcastically.
Sakura grinned, "Sorry, you know you look funny when you are mad, right?"
"Oh, you won't like it when I'm mad," he rolled his eyes.
Their conversation was interrupted by the sound of the doorbell. When Syaoran opened the door, it revealed a worried looking young man and his father standing on his doorway.
"Mr. Kinomoto, I presume?" he asked.
"Yes, may I ask who you are?" Fujitaka Kinomoto asked.
"My name is Li Syaoran. Nice to meet you," Syaoran nodded to both men. "Please come in, sir."
Sakura' father smiled at Syaoran, "Thank you, son."
"Otou-san, Onii-chan!" came Sakura's voice from the living room.
"Sakura-san/Sakura?" called both Touya and Fujitaka in unison.
Sakura ran up to hug her father and brother.
"Are you all right, dear?" asked Fujitaka to his daughter.
Sakura smiled, "I'm okay."
"What did that thief do to you?" asked Touya. "If he laid a hand on you, I swear I will make that man a roast beef!"
Sakura sweatdropped, "I'm okay, nii-chan, really."
Touya sighed and hugged his sister tightly, "Yokatta."
Sakura smiled, "Mm, yokatta."
"Ara, I see our guest has arrived. Please come in and make yourself comfortable here," said Fei Mei who had just came to the living room.
The Kinomotos sat down on the couch and properly thanked the Lis for taking care of Sakura while they were away. Also to Syaoran who 'saved' Sakura from the burglary.
"Oh, it's nothing. We are very delighted to have Sakura-san here. After all, there will be someone to accompany my daughter, too. Meiling, please come here a while, dear," called Fei Mei for Meiling.
Meiling came out dressed in more decent clothes than before, a green shorts and a white T-shirt. "Yes, mother. Oh, are these Sakura-chan's family?" she asked, smiling to the Kinomotos.
"This is Li Meiling, Syaoran's sister," introduced Fei Mei to the Kinomotos.
"It's nice to meet you all," bowed Meiling.
"So, Sakura-san is staying, right?" asked Fei Mei.
"Hmm, we think that it's better for Sakura to stay home," said Fujitaka. "It will make my heart in peace to have her safe in home."
"But I think she is still in shock from earlier accident," commented Fei Mei. "Moreover, I think Sakura-san is enjoying herself here, right? And Meiling said she is a little lonely here. Right, dear?"
Meiling put up a fake smile and nodded happily.
Sakura smiled, "Otou-san, I think I like it here. Can I stay here for the night?"
Fujitaka smiled, "If that's what you want, of course you can, dear."
She grinned, "Thank's, Otou-san."
"Well, It's settled then. I guess we better be going, ne, Touya-kun?" Fujitaka asked, then sweat-dropped when seeing Touya and Syaoran sending glares to each other. "Touya-kun?"
"Onii-chan!" Sakura called.
Touya got out of his glaring trance with Syaoran, "Yes?"
"Let's go home, son."
"Oh, okay."
(Li Apartment, 10.47 pm, Meiling's Bedroom)
"Ne, Kinomoto-san?" Meiling called. They were lying in the bed that time. Meiling was lying beside Sakura on her bed.
"Hmm?" replied Sakura who wasn't facing Meiling.
"What do you think about my cousin?" Meiling asked.
"Your cousin? What do you mean?" Sakura asked back, bewildered by the awkward question.
"What is your opinion about him?"
Sakura rolled on her back to face Meiling, "What I think? Hmm, he's a nice boy, actually. However, he hides it with his cold exterior. I admit, the first time I saw him I thought he was just some ignorant jerk who wants all to himself. But after today, I learned who he is, and I kind of thankful that he is here."
"Thankful? What do you mean?"
"I'm thankful that you, Li-kun and Fei Mei was assigned to keep an eye on me. This way, I don't have to be afraid something is gonna happen to my father and brother because I'm sure you three will make sure they both will be okay," Sakura smiled.
Meiling grinned, "Of course we will!"
"And there is one more thing about your cousin."
Meiling raised her eyebrows, "There is?"
Sakura nodded, "Your cousin seems to have experienced many things. From what I see, it's majorly bad, though. I think that's what made him this way now."
Meiling stared open-mouthed at Sakura.
"What? Is there something on my face?" asked Sakura, bemused.
"You know what, Kinomoto-san? You are the only girl who gives that opinion about my cousin," said Meiling.
Sakura grinned, "I figured that. And by the way, just call me Sakura."
"All right," Meiling grinned. "You knew? That all the girls are drooling over my cousin?"
"Of course I knew. All the girls in school is squealing and sighing whenever he passed one of them. It's really annoying, you know."
"And you are the first person to say that," said Meiling slapping Sakura's back.
Sakura laughed, "Okay, okay. That hurts!"
"I better tell Xiao Lang these stuffs!" said Meiling while giggling.
"Oh my God, I'm so thrilled!" then they both laughed.
"Well, good night, then," said Meiling after they calmed down. "I have to wake up early tomorrow morning."
"Okay, oyasumi nasai," said Sakura.
"Oyasumi."
(ISS Headquarter, France, 11.27 pm)
"So," a man said from his seat. "They had made their first move?" He was in his study and looking outside the window at the moment.
A girl with jet black hair that was standing across the man answered, "Yes, sir. The target is the emerald girl. However, much to our curiousness they didn't showed up when the girl had been secured. It looked like they had known that we were going to rescue the girl before them."
The man didn't give a comment about what the girl said. "How about our girl here?"
"She is getting suspicious about our Man in Disguise. It has been predicted before, though. And we figured it'll just take a few days or weeks for her to know the truth. It is too, has been predicted. In case there is something unusual happening, we have prepared the cover."
"Good, what other information do you have for me?" the man turned his seat to look at the girl.
"For now, it's only that."
The man nodded, "Prepare me a jet. I'm going to fly to Tokyo. And you're coming. We have an important meeting to go."
The girl bowed. "If you'll excuse me." Then she retreated when the man nodded at her, signing her to begin doing his order.
(Narita Airport, Tokyo, 11.37 pm)
He sighed and slowly took his breath. Then he smiled to himself. It's been a while since he stepped on his motherland's ground. Even though he was here for a mission, he's still happy that he had a chance to visit his birthplace. He walked outside the airport to call a taxi. However, before he got to the gate, there was a guy holding his name plate. He furrowed his eyebrows and approached the man. The man recognized him immediately and bowed before him.
"Nice to meet you, sir." The man shook his hand.
Nakamura Yuta nodded and asked, "What brings you here? It's not usual that I'm being picked up by someone from the office."
"Mr. Chang told me to pick you up here and bring you straight to the Headquarter for a debrief." The man took Yuta's trunk and led him to the car. "You are ordered to take care of several operational matters before that, though."
"Operational matters?" Yuta entered the front of the car beside the man.
"I'm sorry. I know nothing of that sort. I'm just here to pick you up."
Yuta sighed. "Well, I guess we just have to find out more when we reached there, right?"
(Li's Apartment, 01.03 am)
Syaoran crept into Meiling's room and tiptoed to her bed. When he reached it, he turned on the bedside lamp and woke Meiling up.
"Hey Meiling, wake up."
"Omae, hentai yaro," she mumbled in her sleep. – (meaning: you, perverted jerk.)
"Meiling, it's Syaoran! The HQ wants a word on you immediately!"
Meiling jerked from her sleep, "The HQ! What happen with the HQ!"
Syaoran sweat-dropped, "There is nothing about them. They want you to report to them ASAP. It's like there's something they wanna talk to you about."
She rubbed her eyes, "Okay, I'll be down in a minute."
"Okay," replied Syaoran. However, he didn't move. Instead he stared at the girl sleeping beside Meiling. He frowned, Hey, her hair isn't brown. It's bright auburn.
"What are you doing here? I wanna get change and—," Meiling stopped and looked at the direction he was looking. "Hmmm..."
"What?"
"Nothing. Now, get out. I wanna change my clothes first."
Syaoran shrugged and got out of the room.
(ISS Headquarters, Tokyo Branch, 03.14 am)
Meiling walked hastily to the briefing room to find the head of the branch. She entered the head office to find Lei Chang, Li Yelan and Yurry Mage, head of the branch, sitting on the couch waiting for her.
"Is there anything you want to talk to me about?" she asked.
"Please sit down, dear," said Yelan.
"The Cage has made their first move, Agent Li. And sooner or later they will make their second, third, and so on.. Regarding your history, we have a favor to ask," briefed Lei.
Meiling stared bewildered on her place; she looked at her hands and shook her head. "Yes?"
"We have found one of their cells in this country. And knowing that you are coincidentally here at the same time, we decided to ask this favor to you. We know this will be hard to obtain, that's why this is optional for you. If you want to get in the part, we will delightedly put you in this. But if you don't want to, we have other person to take care of this, even though we aren't sure if this person will do it as good as you, Agent Li."
Meiling gulped, "If I accepted this request, what do you want me to do?"
"We want you to go undercover as one of their operatives, hack into their systems and download their database for us. And we want you to gain trust of one of their employees, take as much as information you can get, and transfer it to us. This may seems to be an easy work for you, agent Li. However, the difficult part in this mission is that you won't be having back-up until the information is transferred to us. And you won't wear any transmitter there. The ISS cannot take the risk of you getting caught. Our cover will be blown and it could risk all of our plans to bring them down. Well, the point is, you're going dark."
"And if I don't take this part, who's going take it?"
"It's not your place to ask that question, Agent Li," said Lei.
Meiling's lips made an 'o' and she brought her fingers to her lips. "Sorry..."
"We will give you two weeks to give us your answer. If you don't have anything to ask, you'll be dismissed."
"Thank you," said Meiling, getting out of the room and walked outside the office only to bump into someone. She fell on her butt and groaned, "Sorry."
"It's alright. My fault. Here, I'll help you stand."
Meiling accepted the hand. Then she looked up and her cheek rendered to a rose-colored one, "Nakamura Yuta?"
"Li Meiling," said Yuta, bemused. "What are you doing here?"
"Me? I was assigned to a mission in Tomoeda. And what are you doing? Aren't you supposed to be in Hong Kong?"
"I don't know. I was working in this some sort of mission when ISS called me to go to Japan. And now, here I am," he smiled. "Did they call you too?"
"Yes," she replied, still blushing. "I was asked to do some favor to them, and they give me two weeks to reply."
"Two weeks? Isn't that too long? The ISS seldom give a request, especially that long."
"I'm confused about it myself," she replied. "Aren't you supposed to be going in now?"
"Oh yeah, right," he slapped his forehead. "And hey, do you want to get a cup of coffee this afternoon? But it's alright if you don't want to. You might be busy, or doing something-."
Meiling smiled, "That would be nice."
Yuta grinned, "Great, I'll call you, okay?"
"Alright, see you then."
Yuta got in the head office, leaving Meiling smiling to herself. She had had a crush on Yuta since she first met him on a mission in Paris. Syaoran was the head of the mission that time and Yuta was the person in charge of operating system. She herself was the field agent to infiltrate a terrorist organization. They met when he debriefed her on the gadget. After that mission, he took her to dinner. It was just a friendly one, but that was the incredible time that was hard to forget.
She walked towards the exit just to pass one of Syaoran's sisters, Fuutie.
"Meiling? What are you doing here? Where's Xiao Lang?" asked Fuutie.
"I was called here for a briefing in the head office. Xiao Lang is in Tomoeda, along with our new 'babe'." Meiling replied while crooking her finger like an apostrophe.
"Babe?" Fuutie repeated, amused. Then something clicked on her, "Ah, it's the Kinomoto girl, right?"
Meiling grinned, "You sure know a lot of gossips, aren't you?"
"Fei Mei told me that last night. She was very happy when she said that, too happy if you could say it."
Meiling chuckled, "So, what are you doing here?"
"You know you are working in a big case, right? Lei got us work on our ass for 20 hours a day. And that's just for finding one single information. And now they want me to take over all information and put the pieces together, which is too much a hard work for me. Well, I have to go now. Send my regards to Xiao Lang and Fuutie."
"Alright, see you."
"Bye."
(Li's Apartment, 08.00 am)
Meiling had gone to the Tokyo HQ for three and a half hour and not yet come back. Fei Mei said she was called to the HQ, too. Why was he the only one that isn't going? His head throbbed so much and he had black eyes. He couldn't sleep the night before so he turned on Meiling's computer and wrote the report on the earlier incident, which took him all night long until someone from the HQ called him and told him to send the news to Meiling that she was wanted at the Tokyo Branch.
Syaoran sighed, 'Wonder what was all that about.'
He stayed in his spot for five minutes before his cellphone rang. It was a message from Meiling "I'm going to be home late, please wake up Kinomoto-san and walk her home. Thx b4 ;)"
He groaned, "Why do I have to be the one left behind?"
He got out his sleeping position on the couch and went to Meiling's bedroom. He opened the door and sat beside Sakura. He tugged on her shoulder, "Hey, wake up." It was futile. He tried to tug harder, but she didn't even move an inch. Then, he moved closer her and placed his face exactly on top of her. Then he bellowed, "Oi sleepy-head. Rise and shine."
Sakura opened her eyes just to find a pair of amber eyes staring right at her. She screamed and pushed him away, "What the hell are you doing!"
"What was that for?" asked Syaoran while rubbing his ears.
"I should be the one asking that question. Hey, wait. What are you doing in my room?"
"It's not your room, it's Meilings."
Sakura frowned in confusion before things started to rush into her brain. "Oh, right. I remember now. Still, what are you doing in Meiling's room? And where is she?"
"She was called in by the ISS. Now, she's at the Tokyo HQ reporting last night incident. I'm here to wake you up. It's time for you to go home."
Sakura nodded in understanding.
Syaoran shrugged and left the room.
Sakura sighed, "That guy is weird." She got out the bed and changed her clothes. After that, she left the room and found Syaoran sitting on the couch with his eyes closed. She groaned mentally and sat down across him. "So, what now?"
"What now?" Syaoran opened his eyes. "There's breakfast on the table. Fei told me to make sure you eat it. If, you don't want Fei Mei to cut my throat after what happened last night, you will kindly eat the breakfast."
"Of course I'll eat that." Sakura got on the table and began eating her breakfast. She stopped a while, "You're not eating?"
Syaoran shook his head, "No, I'm good. I just want to sleep. Just let me sleep, yeah right. Let me sleep..." He got into sleeping position and doze off.
Sakura stopped eating and went to the couch and sat beside his foot. Then she found a note:
Xiao Lang, the breakfast on the table is for Kinomoto-san. Make sure she eats it. Sorry BTW, don't have time to make yours. Then again it's your fault staying awake all night. I'm gonna be at the Tokyo HQ. Call me if anything happens.
Fei
Sakura smiled. They are one unique family. She stood up and finished her breakfast. Then she made him soup with a glass of milk and put them on the table across the couch. She left the apartment after she left a note for him:
Hey, please tell Fei Mei-san that the breakfast is delicious and thank her for it. Thanks too for the treat and your help.Kinomoto Sakura
P.S: Maybe we can really go to the park next time! ;p
(Shibuya Station, Tokyo, 10.04 am)
Meiling looked at her watch while smiling to herself. Yuta had agreed to meet her there after they both got their rest. However, she was too excited to meet him that she came two hours earlier than the time they had settled.
She sighed in happiness when thinking that she was going to meet the guy she liked. It was like a dream. She never thought Yuta would ask her out like that and them going on a date. Then she shook her head, setting aside those thoughts. Yuta would never like her. They're just friends, right? And in the Society, it's been told that it's better for the agents not to get involved with each other in any ways that could jeopardize a mission.
Her thought was interrupted when someone tapped her on her shoulder.
"Is there something disturbing you, my lady?" the person asked.
Meiling turned her head to see the intruder and smiled. "Hey, good morning, Yuta-kun."
"It's strange for you to say that. Yuta's just fine." he grinned. "Am I late?"
"No, I'm just a bit early." Meiing chuckled. "So, I guess we just gonna have our brunch, ne?"
Yuta nodded enthusiastically. Then looked concernly at Meiling's eyes. "And have you had your rest?"
"Mm, I managed to sleep for about three or four hours before I got here." Obviously, she was lying. She couldn't sleep a blink after bumping onto Yuta. And she had waited at the station for about two hours because she lost track of time. "Hey, it's your turn to choose the place." Then they both started to walk out the crowded train station.
"Hey, how about that little restaurant at the corner? The cuisine is good there. Or at least suitable for our empty stomach," remarked Yuta when feeling his stomach growling for food.
"Anything can fill my stomach right now. I'm just too damn hungry." Meiling stated. "Xiao Lang woke me up in the middle of the night just to make me drive myself two hours long from Tomoeda to Tokyo."
"It's good, isn't it? Just count that as a workout for you," Yuta joked.
Meiling laughed wryly, "So much for that..."
"Hey, you've been working in desk much lately, right?" Yuta asked when entering the restaurant.
"I think so. It's been a while since I last taken my exercise. I must've had loosen up right now." She pinched her upper arm, indicating fat that stayed there.
Yuta laughed. "So, I take your work been boring lately?"
"Kinda," Meiling shrugged. "All day, I'm just doing observations to the Society's Web, finding informations, gaining intels, writing reports and making summaries. That doesn't count all the works Fei and Xiao Lang gave me."
"I can imagine. They can be a pain in the ass sometime."
"Pains in the ass everytime," Meiling corrected.
The waitress came and gave them the menu. After they had ordered their meal, they waited in silent. Meiling looked around and realized how pretty the restaurant is. The interior was simple with little plants at every corner of the bistro. The floor and walls were covered with woods, making a classic atmosphere in the busy street of Shibuya. The window frame was covered with deep brown paint that matches its surroundings. Everything were in its perfect placing, which made her felt more comfortable.
"You have a great taste of choices." Meiling observed the whole surroundings.
"I just chose the nearest restaurant or café that I could think of. And this one is the one that popped into my mind the first."
"Ne, Yuta." Meiling ignored Yuta's words. "Can you tell me the real objection why you were called to the HQ earlier?"
Yuta suddenly tensed a bit and averted his gaze from her. "That was, err..."
"Does that have anything to do with me?" Meiling asked thoroughly. He didn't answer.
After several seconds of silence, Yuta shook his head remembering the Head of Society's word. "I can't exactly confirm your thought. But it has something to do with your mission right now." He gave her an assuring smile. "It just has to take another day or two for you to know about that."
Meiling seemed disapproved by his words, but she hid it and gave him a grin. "I guess I'm too curious, aren't I?"
-To be continued-
A/N: You know, just give a review, and I will give you the next chapter!