Chapter Seventeen
Mischievous Love
Card Captor Sakura
*starjade*
In Which A Mystery Box leads to Ghosts and Bananas.
" SAKURA! There's a box here for you!" Touya yelled from downstairs.
Sakura ran down the stairs, excitement building in her until she halted in her steps. Box...something about a box made her weary. Box...BOXERS!!
" Nooooo!" Sakura cried, exaggerating her running as she ran to Touya and grabbed the box, throwing it to the side and pulling Touya down to the floor.
Hiding her face, she waited for..
" What the hell are you doing??" Touya cried.
Sakura peeked. The box was still lying there, where it was. Sakura stared at Touya and then back at the box.
" It's not...it's not exploding or something.." Sakura said slowly. Touya hit her on the head.
" The older you get, the weirder you are!" Touya muttered. " Yukito, guess what Sakura just did!!" Touya cried as he walked into the kitchen, where Yukito always was.
Sakura flushed. Gre-at. She was the best at making a fool of herself.
Walking over to grab the box, Sakura remembered yesterday vividly. Hiiro acting like a robot, all twitchy and then getting all romantic at the end.
Did he really have a crush on her?
It was so unbelievable.
Sakura sat on the window seat and stared at the box, and opened it gingerly, squeezing her eyes tight. When nothing happened, Sakura stared into the box.
" Oh my god."
It was absolutely freaky.
She couldn't believe it!!
Things like this...didn't even happen in movies!!!
How could this...happen??
It was a piece of paper.
Sakura picked it up, and turned it over. In a big red heart there was a sentence.
O be love ed, pleez eskort me to dha dans next weeknd!! Frum Here-o.
Sakura stared at it. Hiiro wanted her to go to the dance with him?? What should she do?? She needed Tomoyo's advice, but Tomoyo was out with the fist shaking worthy baboon leader of all time. He seemed to be calling her and saying lovey dovey words a lot lately. She had heard Tomoyo's conversation with him at the door when he came to pick her up.
" You don't think I'm gay, do you?"
" Of course not-"
" I knew it! You do!!"
" I don't-"
" YOU DO!" And then it lapsed into insane sobbing.
Seriously, she didn't know why Tomoyo made the effort.
Suddenly, there was a howl outside her window. Her heart stopped. What the hell was that?
Probably nothing. Just her imagination.
" Whoooooooooooooo..."
Ice trickled down her spine. What was that...sound? That howl? It made her shudder and her heart thumped twice as fast as her fingers trembled. There was something outside her window. What was it? What could it be?
This time there was shuffling, a crunch of leaves.
" Whoooooooooooooo..."
" It's nothing, it's nothing..." she repeated to herself. Fear wrapped around her like a cloak and she shivered.
Crunch crunch.
Then there was breathing.
She felt as if the breathing was at her neck. Hot, humid breathing against her neck. Like a wolf, teeth bared. Or a gh-
" WHOOOOOOOO..."
It was BEHIND her!!
" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Sakura screamed.
A big floating white thing was outside her window! Right behind her!
" GH-GH-GHOST!" She yelled, her whole body trembling with fear. This was not happening, this couldn't happen! Fear gripped her heart and without pausing to think, she grabbed a huge teddy bear and slammed it against the white floating thing, expecting it to go through.
She did NOT expect it to slam against the ghost and for the ghost to yell, " SHIT!!"
The ghost almost fell, but then it grabbed the window sill with white hands and pulled itself into the room. Sakura screamed again, feeling herself grow dizzy.
There's a ghost in my room, a ghost in my room, a ghost in my room!! She thought and threw another teddy bear at the ghost. Teddy bears seemed to hurt ghosts.
" God, stop it!" The ghost yelled.
" Gh-gh-ghost, evil spirit, get away from me!!" Sakura yelled, throwing teddy bear after teddy bear.
The ghost groaned as another teddy bear hit it, this time on the face. " Oww...whoooo! I am a ghooost! I am here to haaaaunt you!"
The ghost advanced on her and Sakura was shocked to see that she had no more teddy bears. Trembling all over, she felt her life flash before her eyes.
No!!
She would not die at the hands of a teddy bear hating ghost!!
She would fight to the END!
With a scream of outrage, Sakura bounded at the ghost and punched out with a flurry of fists, teeth, hands and feet.
The ghost yelled more curses as it went down and Sakura continued to pound at the ghost, aiming for the face.
Then she saw something that shocked her more than anything.
The ghost had amber eyes.
" Ghostie??" She whispered. " Why do you have eyes??"
Suddenly the ghost shed it's skin!!! The ghost merely took his skin off! And it was..
" SYAORAN???" Sakura shrieked.
Syaoran was now sitting on the bed, the rumpled white sheet around him, his hair tousled and his clothes wrinkly, rubbing his eye. " I'm gonna get a black eye!" He moaned. " Because of a girl!"
Sakura's heartbeat was slowing down as she blinked at him. "What the hell....what the hell did you do??" She screamed and launched at him again with a punch that struck him straight in the nose.
" OWWWW!" Syaoran literally screamed and Sakura stumbled back as blood poured out of his nose.
" Oh no!!" Sakura said, her eyes wide with a more real fear this time. She quickly grabbed the white sheet and pressed it against his nose. " Hold it against your nose and wait there, alright??"
She ran out of her room and she heard Touya yell from downstairs, " What's going on up there?"
" It's a movie!" Sakura said hurriedly. " A ghost movie!"
Not much of a lie, anyway.
Touya laughed. " No wonder your screaming. The kaijuu is such a scaredy cat!"
" I AM NOT!" Sakura yelled, as she ran back into her room with a bowl of water and an ice pack. Sakura quickly put the ice pack against his eyes and grabbed the sheet from him and wet it with water, dabbing his nose and washing away the blood.
" I think I just bruised it," Sakura said slowly, inspecting his nose. " It's not broken or anything."
Syaoran groaned. " It hurts..."
Sakura felt her eyes burn with tears. " I'm so sorry!" She said in a pained voice and reached out to hug him and stopped herself just in time. She busied herself with drying his nose, and giving him a piece of the sheet to hold against it in case it bled even more than it was already.
Syaoran was staring at her. " You are one freaky lady!" He said, in almost an awed voice.
Sakura felt heat rise to her cheeks. No you are not blushing, you are NOT blushing!! " Ghosts do that to me..." she said and then remembered anger poured into her.
" What the hell were you doing in a ghost costume outside my window??" Sakura said, her voice laced with fury.
Syaoran turned pale. " Uhh..."
" Was that another prank??"
" Uhh.."
" ANSWER ME, damn you!!"
Syaoran glanced at his watch. " Oh, look at the time, it's time to escape Sakura's evil wrath. Bye!"
Sakura grabbed his arm to prevent him from leaving, but she tripped over the white cloth that Syaoran had thrown carelessly on the floor and landed on Syaoran.
" OW!" Sakura cried. " Can you not leave your pathetic ghost costume on the floor?"
Syaoran laughed. " Pathetic? The way you were screaming, I'd hardly call my costume pathetic."
Sakura's eyes blazed. " You're the one that's pathetic, Mr. Baboon Man-"
She stopped suddenly as the expression in Syaoran's eyes changed. She felt then, what he was feeling. They were pressed against each other, Syaoran's arm around her waist, hers against his chest. She felt her heartbeat double up and her breathing turned ragged.
His touch was doing something to her, she thought wildly. She had to...she had to break away or-
His face started to reach down to hers and she felt her eyes flutter close as she let herself relax in his arms and press against him as his lips neared hers. A graze, light as a feather, as electrifying as fire and then-
" Sakura??"
Sakura's eyes flew open with shock. She pushed Syaoran away from him and hissed hysterically, " Hide! My brother's coming upstairs!! Get under the bed!!"
Syaoran looked a bit dazed but went under the bed. Just in time too, for as soon as his feet were disappearing, Touya walked in.
" What the hell is all the noise you're making up here?" Touya said.
Sakura giggled. " It's just the movie!"
Touya looked over at her TV. " I don't see no movie.
Sakura looked over and giggled nervously. " O-Oh, I was just preparing my screaming for the movie I'm ABOUT to watch. You know, you need to be prepared for such things, otherwise you won't be able to drown out the scary background music-"
" Sakura?" Touya said, and went over to her bed, sitting down on it. A groan came from under it and Sakura hurriedly groaned to cover it up.
" Oohh, I'm feeling sick.." Sakura said, clutching her stomach.
Touya looked at her concernedly. " Are you? You've been acting really weird lately. Do you like it here in Hong Kong?"
" Oh yah!" Sakura said, with fake enthusiasm. " It's really...interesting. Yet there is this annoying, ugly guy next door. Remember? He told me yesterday that his ancestors were baboons, that's why he resembles one so greatly."
" Hey!!"
Sakura winced as Touya looked around wildly. " What was that?"
" That was me!" Sakura said, quickly. " Hey! Let's go downstairs and eat dinner, alright?"
Touya looked at her with narrowed eyes and with one more bounce on her bed, got up and walked out. " Coming, kaijuu?"
Sakura growled, " I am not a kaijuu!" As he left, laughing to himself.
A battered up Syaoran crawled his way out from under her bed. " Owww.." He said, groaning.
" Serves you right!" Sakura said, angrily.
An awkward silence stretched between them and Sakura felt a strange urge in the pit of her stomach, to reach out towards him, to hold his hand, to touch him and feel his lips against hers-
" A-Anyways, I've got to go eat dinner. See you!" Sakura said, her voice a bit wobbly.
Syaoran stared at her. " How about me? How am I supposed to get home?"
Sakura smirked. " Go out the way you came. You are a 'master prankster' aren't you?"
Syaoran gaped at her as she left the room, laughing. He went and looked out her window at the long rope dangling from her window sill. Great. Just great.
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" Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh uh huh uh huh," Eriol chanted as he spun around the kitchen. Tomoyo was cooking dinner and he did the only thing he was capable of cooking.
Popping popcorn.
" Watch these skills!" Eriol cried as he pushed the button on the microwave and the scent of buttered popcorn filled the air. He grabbed the bag and raised it in the air in a mock solute.
" I have cooked...POPCORN!" Eriol cried proudly until he dropped it, screaming, " Ow, Ow, I got burned, burned!!"
Tomoyo rolled her eyes. " You're such a baby, Eriol!" She giggled as she grabbed his fingers and kissed it. " There, all better."
Eriol gaped at her. " I'm dying and all you can do is kiss my first degree burns?? What kind of girlfriend are you??"
Tomoyo laughed. " You're not dying, Eriol!"
Eriol put his hands on his hips. " Watch and see, lady! I can already see the headlines. " Handsome, youthful man dead from first degree burns and girlfriend thinks it's just a boo boo.""
Tomoyo put on a puppy dog face. " Would you like a band-aid, my little pooh bear?"
Eriol pouted. " Yes please."
Tomoyo rolled her eyes. " Come on, let's go watch that movie...Scary Movie?"
" It's really funny!" Eriol said earnestly. " There's this one part where the killer is like wasssssup and all the druggie guys are like, wasssssup and-"
" I get the point-"
" And then he was like, wassssup-"
" The POINT has been UNDERSTOOD, Eriol!"
Tomoyo led the way to the family room as Eriol popped the video in carefully. Tomoyo pressed play and they snuggled together to watch, Scary Movie.
" Oh this is the part where she grabs the banana instead of the weapons," Eriol said, excitedly.
" I can see that," Tomoyo said.
" And then she goes running through the sprinklers like she's some model-"
" Eriol?" Tomoyo asked, her voice taking on a tone of seriousness.
Eriol froze. " Uh oh."
" What?" Tomoyo asked, questioningly.
" You're being serious," Eriol said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Which it was.
Tomoyo sighed. " That's the whole thing I wanted to talk to you about."
" It's....It's the banana..." Eriol said, whining. " My favourite fruit-"
" Eriol!" Tomoyo said warningly.
Eriol ran a hand over his face and squished it up. " Muprmfrjakioare-Okay, I'm ready. You're going to break up with me, aren't you??"
Tomoyo looked shocked. " Of course not!"
" Your not?" Eriol said, grinning. " Then what's the problem?? If it's the pink nail polish, tomorrow it's gonna be blue, so don't worry. Look, the characters are being introduced and we'll miss-"
" Eriol, I'm not breaking up with you, but I wanted to discuss your lack of...seriousness, if you can call it that."
Eriol looked at her. " Seriousness? I'm serious!!"
Tomoyo stared at him. " Uh huh."
" Truly! I was serious when I asked you to go out with me!" Eriol said, putting his hands on his chest innocently.
Tomoyo looked away, her hair hiding her face. " See...sometimes, I think...you didn't mean to ask me out. That this is all just part of your plan to prank us. That you don't really like me and you're-"
Eriol started to laugh. Tomoyo stared at him as he cracked up laughing, doubling over in hysterics. Tomoyo's eyes filled with tears and she rose a hand and slapped him with all her might.
" Don't talk to me ever again!" She screamed at him and got up, throwing the popcorn all over the floor and storming out.
" Tomoyo! Tomoyo!"
Tomoyo walked even quicker, and Eriol grabbed her hand. " Stop!" Eriol cried.
Tomoyo halted. " What, Hiirigizawa?" She spit out.
Eriol blanched. " Come on, Tomoyo-"
" Look, Hiirigizawa, I don't have time for this. I'm going home-" Eriol put his hands over her lips, silencing her.
His eyes were dead serious. " Look, Tomoyo, you're the first girl I've liked like this in such a long time. Sometimes I think-Well, Tomoyo, I was only laughing because I couldn't believe that you'd think this was all because of a prank. It isn't, Tomoyo.
Tomoyo stared at him as he continued, "I saw you that first day and I knew that we had a connection and I knew that you'd be my girl. And I'd be yours. But you've just got to accept what I am, who I am. If I wasn't 'Eriol' than would you have gone out with me?"
Tomoyo looked up at him with wide eyes.
Eriol leaned down and whispered, " And if I wasn't Eriol, I wouldn't have taped a sign to your back saying, Kiss my Bootilicious Butt."
Tomoyo wrenched Eriol's hand away from her mouth and cried, " Eriol!!" And reached around to rip the sign off her back.
Eriol laughed and Tomoyo smiled too. " Thanks, Eriol. You're my sweet little gum drop honey doodle."
Eriol rose his eyebrows and Tomoyo laughed as Eriol leaned down and pressed his mouth gently against hers. Tomoyo's arms reached around his neck and pulled him closer as they shared a sweet kiss under the moonlight and the fallen leaves.
Oh the horror! The horror! I think this is the FIRST time Mischievous Love has ended on a romantic note!! You readers must be drowning in the sappiness!! Where is the craziness? Where is the suspiciously girly Eriol and the dense Sakura and the stupid Syaoran?? ( ah well, you've seen the stupid Syaoran already)
Well, it's time to end this chapter. You won't see the Ultimate Plan, or how Hiiro is incorporated into the story or how Sakura and Syaoran ever get together, or if Eriol was sincere about his promise or if the love part of the title will ever come into the story!! BUT you might see some of these things in the NEXT chapter of Mischievous Love!!
a/n: Wat wat! That is wat ya call romance and humour!! Uh huh! uh huh! uh huh uh huh uh huh! Lol! Aight, everyone, send in SUGGESTIONS, COMMENTS, CRITICISM, PREDICTIONS, watever!! ( come on people, no one sends me suggestions!! *cries hysterically*)
It's aight though! I lub ya all, just the same! And did I see that we went over the thousand mark for this story?? Oh yes I did!! That means celebration time!! *dances wildly for two seconds* Aight, everyone, see ya latez!!
THANK YA SO MUCH!
Luvya,
*starjade*
