A Thin Line

Chapter 4

A/N: well since the previous chapter was mostly about Sakura and Syaoran, this one is going to mostly be about Tomoyo and Eriol. I'm just making things fair for the characters. Oh but don't worry there will still be Sakura and Syaoran moments. :P

/Touya's room\\\\\\\\

"Father." Touya whispered in disbelief. He was shocked to see Fujitaka alive after being gone for 2 years. Fujitaka was shaking Yukito's hand.

"Its good too see you again Yukito." Fujitaka smiled pleasantly.

"You too sir." Yukito smiled back. Touya finally got over his shock long enough to hug his father. They spent the rest of the night catching up with one another.

/Morning\\\\

"What? No!" Sakura protested to her father taking the offer by Yelan to go to Hong Kong for a month. "You just came back." Tears swelled up in her eyes.

"Yea, I know but we need the money. Right now I can't afford to keep you two in school." Fujitaka said in a calm voice. (A/N: they've been in school due to the fact that Fujitaka had some money in the bank but it's all used up now after 2 years.)

Sakura hugged her father tightly as she cried on his shoulder. He held her tightly while looking at Touya. "Take good care of your sister." He said and Touya nodded.

Coming back from the airport, Sakura didn't make a sound. When she got to her room she just went straight to her room, not saying a word.

(A/N: let's fast forward to the next week because Sakura is just crying for a week and not talking to any one and that's boring.)

/One Week Later\\\\\

Sakura had finally showed up to class and she seemed to be back to normal which made everyone relief.

"Sakura are you sure you're ok?" Tomoyo asked with concern over her face.

"Yeah fine, I mean it's not like it's the first time that he left and I'll be back in just 3 weeks, that'll go by faster then 2 years." She showed her usual smile at her three friends.

"Glad you see it that way." Eriol placed his hand on her shoulder, giving her comfort.

The rest of the day went by faster the Sakura had thought. It was the same as usual but somehow faster. It was classes and then lunch and then some more classes and then time to go home. Sakura was actually tired so she decided to go straight to her room after school instead of hanging out with Tomoyo, Eriol and Syaoran.

/Sakura\\\\\\

Sakura jumped face first onto her sofa in the living room. She turned around so that she was looking at the ceiling. Using only her other feet, Sakura took off her shoes. After looking at the ceiling for a few minutes, her eyes grew heavy so she fell asleep.

Emerald eyes fluttered open to be greeted by some amber ones. she blinked rapidly as she watched Syaoran's eyes looking at hers. then darkness kicked in.

"What the?" she quickly stood up. "Syaoran?" her hands felt around for Syaoran.

"The power's out. It's probably because of the thunder storm." Syaoran grabbed her hand letting her know where he was. "Oh." He then walked over to a candle on the table, pulled out a lighter, and lid it. Syaoran let go on Sakura's hand so he could hold the candle. "What time is it?" Sakura asked still a little sleepy.

"About four in the afternoon."

"Oh." She rubbed her eyes with the back of her hands.

The door flung open. "Sakura!" Tomoyo's came from the other side of the open door.

"I'm fine. Are you?" Sakura ran up to her friend and hugged her tightly. "Where's Eriol?" Syaoran walked up to the hugging girls. Tomoyo shrugged, "He was with me a minute ago."

"Right here." Eriol popped up with a blanket over his whole body. Due to the lack of light, it looked like he didn't have a face. So of course Sakura and Tomoyo screamed causing the boys to cover their ears.

"Thanks girls, I was planning on using my ears today." Eriol was poking his index finger inside his one of his ear hoping to be able to regain his hearing.

"Well you shouldn't have snuck up on us like that." Tomoyo pouted.

"Well I was just having some fun, come one Tomoyo sorry." Tomoyo put her hand on her hip while pouting.

"So now what?" Sakura asked looking back as Syaoran.

"We turn on the switch for the power." Syaoran answered her.

"Why do we have to do it? Couldn't someone else do it?" Sakura didn't want to go outside in that thunder storm.

"Who? The ghosts? Everyone is gone."

"Why?"

"Because while you were asleep everyone in the boring school took off to some field trip."

"Oh, I see. Wait why didn't you guys go?" Sakura looked from face to face.

"Because I couldn't leave you hear alone and they stayed because, well I don't know why." Syaoran pointed to Eriol and Tomoyo and he used the word "they"

"There was no way we were gonna go to some place without our best friends. Tomoyo helped Syaoran finished his sentence.

"So let's go. you girls go to the east side of the school and me and Eriol will take the other." Syaoran instructed but no one moved. "There are two power switches for this school" he explained when he saw everyone looking at him and not moving at all. "What?"

"How can you let two girls go outside by themselves?" Sakura pouted this time. "Well…" Syaoran tried to think of a better plan but Sakura got to it before.

"I'll go with you and Tomoyo will go with Eriol." She then grabbed a jacket and walked out the door. Everyone followed.

/Tomoyo and Eriol\\\\

"So where is the power switch?" Tomoyo asked as she walked behind Eriol. "Somewhere on the wall." Tomoyo rolled her eyes, "That's helpful."

"Found it!" Eriol stopped so suddenly that he caused Tomoyo to hit her face on his back. "Ow." She whined.

"Sorry."

"Its ok." Tomoyo rubbed her nose and then smiled again. Eriol pulled the power switch to off completely and then back to "on" again. (A/N: that's how you get power back when it suddenly goes off.)

After they did what they were suppose to, Eriol and Tomoyo went back inside to duck the rain. "You ok?" Eriol asked wiping some rain water off himself. He was looked back over at Tomoyo who was squeezing the water off her raven hair. He blushed. She looks so beautiful, his mind was screaming at him to compliment her.

"Your hair is really… long." Eriol struggle to get the words out, but when he did he shut his eyes in embarrassment. (A/N: lol)

"Uh thank you? Your hair is really short." She smiled weakly. He smiled nervously back.

"I wonder if Sakura and Syaoran found the switch yet." Tomoyo took a seat on the lobby bench. Eriol came and took a seat next to her.

"Maybe Sakura fell again and Syaoran has to help her up again." Eriol started to snicker and Tomoyo couldn't help but chuckle when she thought about Sakura tripping like always and then turned red when she was helped up.

/Syaoran and Sakura\\\\\

Sakura sneezed.

"Are you sick?" Syaoran turned around to look at her.

"No. I'm fine." She used her index finger to slide across the bottom of her nostrils. (Like what most people do after they sneeze)

/Tomoyo and Eriol\\\\

Eriol couldn't help but stare as Tomoyo leaned her head on the wall behind the bench. Say something nice, damn it. Eriol's mind told him. "Would you shut up?" she yelled.

"What?" Tomoyo left the wall to look at him.

"Nothing. Hey can I ask you a question?"

"Sure." Tomoyo sat up straight waiting for Eriol to ask his question.

"How do you know if you like someone a lot?"

"A lot? Well you think about them constantly and when you see them you're happy but when they're sad you become sad too. Its hard to explain, its just this warm fussy feeling that you get along with all that." Tomoyo scratched her head trying to explain.

"I see.."

"So who's the lucky girl?" Tomoyo asked snapped him out of his thinking stage.

"You'll see." Eriol smiled to himself unaware that Tomoyo looked down kinda disappointed. So he has someone ins mind, Tomoyo wanted to show that she was sad but decided that it wasn't a good idea, so instead she looked up at him and smiled.

/Sakura and Syaoran\\\\\

Sakura sneezed again. "Are you sure you're not sick?" Syaoran asked while pulling the power switch.

"I'm fine, its just that its so cold out here."
"Its not that cold, its 67 degrees out here."

"Well it doesn't feel like it. Its more like freezing point out here with all that rain and wind blowing in your face. When are you gonna be done I wanna come back inside."

"I've been done, I just didn't wanna interrupt you from thinking out loud." Syaoran smirked at her but dropped his face when he saw that she was shivering. He took off his jacket and placed it over her shoulder when she was walking back towards the door that lead inside.

"Thank you." She said weakly. Now Syaoran was worried. Sakura walked on about 3 feet ahead of Syaoran. She reached the door but didn't get a chance to pull it open before her vision was cover with blurs. She started to fall to one side.

She was expecting to hit the hard concrete of the ground but instead she felt strong arms catching her. Her head was met with Syaoran's chest. In the mist of the blur, she could hear Syaoran's voice screaming out her name before she completely fainted.

/The next day\\\\

Sakura opened her eyes to see that Tomoyo was smiling at her. "Hey there, Sakura."

"Hey." Tomoyo helped her sat up.

"Here, I made you some chicken noodle soup." Tomoyo handed Sakura the bowl of Soup. Tomoyo placed a hand over Sakura's forehead while she was drinking her soup. "Looks like your fever's gone."

"Its kinda of pathetic when you don't even know that you're sick." Syaoran smirked while leaning on the back wall of Sakura's room.

Sakura looked up from her soup. "Shut up, you're lucky I don't have enough energy so I would beat your ass right now!" Sakura warmed with a fist in the air.

"Watch out, Syaoran she might beat you up with that tiny fist of hers." Eriol joined in. Sakura pouted and narrowed her eyes. The boys left, their laughter trailing behind them.

Disclaimer: do I have to say it again? Fin, I do not own CCS, CLAMP does.

A/N: Preview time!

So its her that Eriol likes, Tomoyo though to herself as she watched the pair leave the room, what a good couple.

Tomoyo took a seat next to the thinking Syaoran, "Did I ever tell you that there's a thin line between a best friend and a love interest?"