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Dodging the Raindrops:

Chapter 5:

Plot by: The Can-Can group (that's me!)

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Syaoran laughed.

'I bet that she doesn't even know that she's blushing,' he thought looking at the auburn haired woman in front of him. Sakura sat there taking a gulp of water to wash down the pills all the while blushing.

'Most likely out of embarrassment… or my pretty face,' he laughed inwardly again.

"Will you stop laughing?" Sakura asked while glaring, handing the cup of water back to him.

He laughed, again and said, "Well, I'm going to make supper now." Syaoran grinned as he saw the look of horror sweep across her face. While he went to the kitchen, he could hear Sakura swearing softly.

Suzo looked up as he entered, "Are you making some food?"

"Yep, I make really good food, but don't tell your mother, she thinks that I'm trying to poison her.

Suzo laughed, "Can you make the egg meal thingy?"

Syaoran got a confused look, "A what?"

Suzo searched for words to describe it. "Its sort of flat, made of eggs, folded, and filled with stuff," she finally said.

"You mean omelet?"

Suzo blinks, "I think that's it. Mom can't cook it, so when ever Mr. Hiir-Herizi- um… Mr. Hearyzigzagawa," Syaoran laughed at the pronunciation of his cousin's surname, "Comes over, he makes it."

Syaoran shrugs, "Sure, why not."

Her face brightens, "Wow! Really? Thank you!"

He gave her a small nod and started to work on the egg meal. Within minutes, the whole apartment was filled with the smell of omelets and Kero's excessive drooling. Sakura came walk in, her eyes closed and nose sniffing the air, "It that an omelet I smell?"

"Yep," came the reply.

Sakura took a spot at the table, next to Suzo, and shooed Kero away from the table. Syaoran joined them and placed the tableware on the table (Suzo had showed him were everything was) and placed an omelet on everyone's plate.

Sakura took a cautious bite (least she get poisoned), Suzo took a happy/savoring bite, and Syaoran took a bite that says that he didn't care about it.

"Wow! This is good!" Sakura exclaimed in glee, "Where did you learn to cook like that?"

"Cooking was one of the 'many' things my clan taught me in order for me to claim it as leader once I had gotten old enough." Syaoran shuddered at the thought of the ridiculous training and other stuff that was taught to him at an early age.

"Is this why you speak perfect Japanese? You hardly even have an accent," Sakura asked, taking a bite from the meal, adding, "even though you're from China?"

Syaoran nodded as he too took a bite, "They taught me Japanese, English, French, Latin, and I took Spanish for fun."

Sakura blinked, "All that?"

"Sí."

"Wow…" Sakura ate the rest of her meal dumbfounded.

Syaoran laughed inwardly. The woman across of him kind of amazed him; she seems to be easily impressed, which made such a simple task as learning new languages really great.

The meal continued on, everyone savoring the taste and smell of the omelets. Soon it was time for Suzo's bedtime.

Suzo put on a pleading look as her mother tucked her in, "Can I please stay up longer?" Sakura shook her head, "Nope, you know that if you stay up past seven that you won't get up in the morning."

"Aw, man…" Suzo pouted.

Sakura looked at her daughter. Her red, curly hair reminded Sakura of 'him'. Suzo is the only thing that stops Sakura from making the same mistake again. It shows her what the outcome of the relationship could be. Speaking of mistakes… "If you ever see a man with red hair and black eyes," She said seriously, "Stay away from him and get away."

Suzo looked up at her curiously, "Why?" Alas, the most annoying question a child could ask.

"Um… he's very dangerous. I don't want you to get hurt. So, if you see him, run away."

The little girl blinked and agreed to her mother's terms. She gave out a cute yawn and laid her head down.

"See you in the morning." Sakura kissed Suzo's forehead as the daughter closed her emerald eyes. Sakura got up from Suzo's bedside and walked to the door. With one last glance, she turned off the lights and closed the door softly.

She sighed.

Syaoran turned around from the sink (it was his turn for dishes), "What's wrong?"

Sakura put on a distant look in her eyes, "Its nothing."

"Liar."

"Shut up."

(Jewelry store…)

Sakura sighed. She placed her elbows on to the glass counter and used the palm of her hands to support her head. She blinks, 'Whoa, déjà vu.'

The bell above the door rings, the sound of the distant rumbling of thunder filled the room. A customer enters. Immediately, all the jewelry salespersons straighten their composures, fix their looks and put on sickening-sweet, fake smiles.

Sakura shook her head as she looked at the other sellers. She finally notices a presence in front of her. Sakura brings her gaze up as she too changes her composure. The gaze soon turns into a death glare, "You!" She says in a very low and dangerous tone.

The red curly haired man in front of smirks, "How are you doing my dear Sakura?"

"Why are you here? Are you stalking me?" Sakura thinks back to the day before, "What do you want from me?" Her glare deepens.

The man's smirk grows bigger as he took a step closer to the counter. He leans towards her and cups her chin in his left hand, "I'm here for a necklace, my dear."

"Don't call me that Renjiro."

"Oh, I thought you'd be calling me by my surname by now, or at least bastard." Renjiro grinned as he drew nearer so that their lips are almost touching.

Sakura glared and pulled her head away from his grasp. He laughed and started to look at the necklaces that were displayed in the counter underneath Sakura.

What he was doing there, Sakura didn't know. He's probably trying to ruin her again, or maybe he has a new girlfriend, 'I feel sorry for the whore.'

Renjiro points to an expensive necklace, taking Sakura out of her thoughts. "That one my dear."

Sakura grinds her teeth as she picks up the necklace and puts it into on of the black boxes that have the store's name and emblem on it. He takes out his credit card and hands it to her. She glares at it with such hatred as she rings him up and put the box into a bag. She hands him the bag and the hated credit card.

Before Renjiro left, he gave Sakura a kiss on her cheek. The female jewelers directed jealous glares at her as Renjiro left and as Sakura puts up a hand to her cheek, acting as if the kiss was poison.

"Damn him," she mutters as she hears the rumbling of thunder as the man who is her ex-husband leaves the store, "how dare he."

Sakura notices the stares of the other salespersons, "What are you looking at?" she snapped.

(Some Café…)

"Crap, crap, crap, crap!" Sakura banged her head on the table.

Tomoyo looked at her friend curiously. Sakura had called her a little bit ago; panic was in her voice as she asked her raven-haired friend to meet her at 'Some Café'. "You know," she started in amusement, "you're going to lose brain cells and once they're gone, they're gone."

"Double crap, crapity crap!" Sakura finished, ignoring her friend. She stopped banging her head, "Ouch, headache."

Tomoyo laughed, "So, what's the matter? The last time you banged your head was when… oh no!" Tomoyo's eyes widen, "you mean to tell me he followed you from Tomoeda?"

Sakura dropped her head to the table once more and leaving it there to rest. "Yep, the reason why I left was so that I wouldn't have to face him again." She shivered thinking about the past, "I felt totally humiliated and I thought that everyone knew what happened. I got scared and left."

Tomoyo puts a comforting hand onto Sakura's. "You couldn't have known that he was that type of person. You were young and in love," she said softly.

"I was stupid then." Sakura lifted her head and sent a glare towards the woman across from her, "and besides, weren't you the one who introduced us?"

Tomoyo gulped and laughed nervously, "I have no clue what you are talking about."

"Oh, I think that you do. Renjiro was one of your associates who supposedly loved me."

"Well, how was I supposed to know that he was a perverted freak?"

"But still, I was a fool for ever thinking that he actually had loved me."

Tomoyo gave a sigh of relief.

"But, you should have made sure that he wasn't that type of person!" Sakura got up from her spot.

Tomoyo frowned, "I didn't know, I'm sorry that I ruined your life." She whispered as Sakura made her way to the exit. Tears started to form, "I really didn't know."

Someone sat down across from her; she looks up, while wiping her tears with her sleeve, "Hello Eriol. Why are you here?"

Eriol gave a sympathetic smile, "I always come here at this time." He looked at his watch, the gold-plated hands read sometime close to five. His sapphire eyes noticed her red and slightly puffy eyes, "what's wrong? I saw Sakura almost running out of here looking angry and upset." He looked absentmindedly over his shoulder toward the front door.

"We got into… a small argument."

"Over?" Concern replaced the smiling eyes.

"Over Renjiro. He's back and Sakura got upset." Tomoyo shook her head, "So, how's your day?" She smiled.

Eriol shook his head, "You're trying to change the subject."

"So, and your point is?"

"How do you feel about all of this?"

Tomoyo laughed, "Are you trying to be my shrink or something?"

He nodded and gave her a smile, "Yep."

Tomoyo sighed, "I'm not sure. I'm angry with both Sakura and myself. Sakura for rushing into things and myself for introducing them." She sighs and lay her head down, "That butt makes us argue without even having to try. I hope he dies slowly and painfully." 'Not only that, but she had bruises, I wonder how she got them…'

Eriol almost laughed at that. Tomoyo looked up. "I have never heard you curse someone like that." He explained seeing her annoyed look.

"He's the only person I will curse at."

Eriol smiled and shook his head, "so, while we're here, let's order something."

(The park…)

Sakura sat on the wooden bench wearing an emotionless mask. She shouldn't have blamed Tomoyo for her own mistakes. She could have said no to the first date or the marriage proposal. But she couldn't, she had been in love. The only good thing that came out of the marriage was Suzo.

Sakura swore softly and stared hard at the ground.

"You know, if you're trying to shoot laser beams out of your eyes, you're doing a really bad job."

Sakura looked up to see a grinning older man with raven hair and dark eyes. He waved, "hello monster."

"Hello Toya," He grinned, "I'm 22 years old and you still call me monster, when are you going to do something original?"

Toya pretended to think, "hmm… never."

"That's what I thought," Sakura sighed. "Why are you here?"

"I tried to call you, but your cell phone wasn't picking up nor was anyone picking up the other phone." Sakura took out her cell phone to inspect it, "Batteries are dead." She announced after several tries of turning it on without any success. She stood up and started to lead her brother towards the park exit and towards her apartment, "So, where's Yukito?"

"At home, most likely eating me out of house and home." He shook his head. He left his friend Tsukishiro Yukito in charge of his house and forgot to empty out the cupboards and such.

"So, do you have a reason why you are here?"

"Just to check up on you, see how you are doing, stay the night and leave tomorrow morning." He indicated the bag on his shoulder.

Along the way, they picked up Suzo. Toya grinned as he saw his niece came running towards him. "Hey kid," Toya ruffled Suzo's hair as they left the preschool.

Suzo huffed, "I'm not a kid."

Toya grinned, "Yes you are, anyone under my age is a kid."

"Toya," Sakura said in a threatening tone, "You're digging yourself into deep dog crap." She opened the door to her apartment and entered with Toya and Suzo following.

Kero came bounding in, like in his usual manner, sniffed Toya's shoe and lifted his leg over it.

"Kero!"

He put it down and sulked away.

"So when did you get the mutt?" Toya asked laughing and yet slightly annoyed.

"Two years ago. He was a stray when I found him and adopted him." Actually, it was more like he found her. She left her front door open once, while throwing a huge bag of trash away. When Sakura returned, Kero was sitting on her couch and the food that she made for Suzo's and her own dinner was gone. She was about to kick him out, but he flashed her sorrow-filled eyes. She kept him after that. Though why she hasn't kicked him for his antics since then Sakura didn't know.

"You're going to have to sleep on the couch tonight." Sakura said as she put their coats into the closet.

"Huh? Why?" Toya sat down on the couch and turned on the TV.

'Yeah, just make yourself at home.' Sakura thought irritably, "Someone's all ready sleeping in there." Sakura headed towards the kitchen (Suzo followed, since that's were she does homework) to start on dinner.

What his little sister had just said, brought him to a complete attention, he ran to the kitchen. "There's a what?" he asked.

"You heard me." Sakura said as she got to work on the Hamburger Helper.

"If it's a guy, I'm gonna-"

"You'll do what?" Sakura yelled. "Its my life, I'm not going to make the same stupid mistake twice." The two siblings stared long and hard at each other.

Suzo was at the table thinking about how funny her uncle and mother's arguments are. She continued to work on her spelling worksheet.

Within the next few moments, Sakura's and Toya's 'argument' went from, "like I give a crap about your life!" to, "well, I at least I didn't wet the bed until I was in high school!" And finally, "will you stop calling me monster!"

Suzo started to laugh/ giggle, which went unheard by the two siblings.

"Are they always this amusing?" A man sat next to her. Suzo looked up, Syaoran was taking a seat next to her, "yep." She answered. This argument was the first one she has witnessed since the last time her uncle visited was when she was one, but she didn't remember it. Boy was she having fun.

They continued to watch the two fight until Toya finally noticed the man at the table, "who the heck are you?" Syaoran glared at the raven-haired man. Toya looked slightly shocked and also started to glare. They had a glaring contest until Syaoran started to speak, "Li Syaoran."

"Kinomoto Toya."

"Are you an ex?"

"Are you kidding me?" Toya had an insulted and disgusted look, "How dare you insult me by saying that I'm her ex. I'm her brother you moron."

Syaoran's eyes started to twitch, "excuse me for not knowing." Something clicked in Syoaran's mind. This is the infamous Kinomoto Toya. 'He doesn't seem so scary.' Toya is only a hair taller than Syaoran. If they were to get into a fight right then, Syaoran would most likely win since he has the edge of training most of his life.

Sakura joined Suzo in the shaking of heads as she went back to the Hamburger Helper.

Her emerald eyes started to twitch. "Will you guys shut up!"

"But, we're not-"

"I said shut up!" She yelled.

Toya leaned over to Syaoran, "She's PMSing, I bet."

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" Sakura kicked them out of the kitchen.

Syaoran and the older brother took a seat on the couch. "This is all your fault," Syaoran comments.

"Shut up."

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