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A/N: Thanks again for the reviews! Glad you like it. As for Cupid… I decided to whip up Meiling… sorry for those who doesn't like the idea, its just that, this is an AU and I could make Meiling anything I want right? Please try reading it also okay? I'd really appreciate it!
Summary: Kinomoto Sakura and Hiiragizawa Eriol are best of friends, seems perfect for each other. Syaoran Li is a teen sensation, engaged to a lovely singer named Tomoyo Daidouji. Hmmm… seems like Cupid got something mixed up… how will he fix this mess?
Chapter 5: Affairs of the Heart Part 1
"You yelled?" Cupid asked irritatedly as soon as he reached the heavens. 'Here we go with all the yapping again…' he thought.
"A problem… again you caused," Artemis welcomed him with a cold glare.
"P-Problem?" Cupid stammered. "What problem?"
"Love is a very delicate thing to medel with," another voice iterrupted as a girl with red black hair and blood red eyes enetered in a puff of pale red smoke. "That's where the problem is."
"And who are you?" Cupid asked irritatedly.
"Meiling… a student of Aphrodite," the girl continued. "She was too busy to make time for your stupid mess so she sent me instead."
"Fix this Cupid!" the god of all gods, Zeus hollered angrily.
"I promised I will right?" Cupid responded to his hot headedness. "Why are now bothering me again?"
"Because oh great one… your methods are wrong!" Artemis yelled at him.
"Wrong? How?" he asked, a big question mark on his forehead.
"You were using your arrows… right?" Meiling shot back the question to him, asking him like tutoring a toddler.
Cupid nodded.
"Well… the arrows are the ones doing all the jobs, not their heart," she continued her explanation. "And their heart still belongs to the other two, so if they fall without the real thing, it'll be a big mistake that could ruin ALL their lives."
Cupid was dumstrucked.
"Are you… sure?" he asked catiously.
Artemis and Meiiling nodded.
"So get your butt down there and start thinking straight!" Artemis yelled. "Not everything could be fix with just a dozen of your darn arrows!"
Cupid sighed and disappeared the way he entered.
"I'll go with him," Meiling permissioned herself as she puffs her way out.
Artemis sighed.
"Oh boy… I hope they make it in time…" she muttered to herself.
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"What are doing here?" Sakura asked Syaoran as he sits beside her. "Lost?"
"No…" Syaoran replied. "I was roaming around the neighborhood and…"
"Got lost," she finished the sentence for him. "Don't worry many people get lost here."
Syaoran looked at her.
"Really?" he asked hopefully. It is quite embarrassing to get lost being a guy and all.
"Uh…Actually no," Sakura replied playfully.
Syaoran chuckled at the kind gesture she offered to lessen his embarrassment.
"And you?" Syaoran asked, hoping to lengthen the conversation. "Why are you here?"
Sakura turned to him with a cocked eyebrow.
"I told you," she answered with a giggle. "This is a special place for me."
"Oh… that's right," Syaoran stammered with a slight blush. "I mean… why is it a special place?" he said as if to clear his question and to pretend he didn't made a mistake.
Sakura giggled before answering.
"Because it reminds me of my mother and…" Sakura explained in a trail.
Sakura's face wondered.
"And…" she tried to continue it.
"What's wrong?" Syaoran asked her.
"N-nothing…" Sakura manage to stammer.
"If you say so…" Syaoran said as he turns to the beautiful view in front of them. "So… your mom huh?… What is she like?" he asked, still not wanting an eerie silence to fill in between them.
"She's kind… and loving…" Sakura replied quite unsure. "But I really don't know… She died when I was two."
"Oh… I'm sorry," Syaoran apologized for reminding her the lost of her mother.
"It's okay," Sakura lightened his guilt.
"You know what," she started. "I wonder why people always apologize whenever they remind others of a dead loved one."
"Well because they apologize for reminding them the pain," Syaoran answered enthusiastically.
"Then you'd be reminding them even more because you're sorry for them," Sakura shot back in argument.
Syaoran cocked an eyebrow.
"You're right," he finally processed her point.
"See?" Sakura pointed out more.
Syaoran giggled at her move to cheer up the glooming atmosphere.
"What's fiunny?" Sakura asked, confused of his giggles.
"Nothing," Syaoran simply replied.
After a few minutes of the silence they both dreaded to fill in between them, Syaoran stood up and turned to Sakura.
"We better go home," he offered her a hand up. "Well at least I got to."
"Sure," Sakura took the kind offer and stood up.
"So…" Syaoran trailed off. "I'll walk you home?" he asked.
"Why not?" Sakura answered, slightly unsure.
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'What's taking her so long this time…' Eriol thought worriedly as he drove his silver Toyota Vios slowly near the sidewalk, particularly looking for his auburn haired best friend.
He drove a few blocks more before spotting an indigo haired girl running from a huge mob of crowd.
"Daidouji?" Eriol wondered outloud as he went on reverse and follows th running girl slowly.
"What are you doing?" he shouted out on his now opened window.
Thankfully, the street was running straight and there was no turn so Eriol could go reverse with not effort at all.
"Running…" Tomoyo replied as she glances on who asked.
"Why?" Eriol asked like an idiot.
"Duh! I'm running from a mob of fans!" she answered like it was of the obvious.
"Hop on!" Eriol shouted at her.
"Huh?" Tomoyo managed to ask, confuse as she continues to pant for breath.
"I said," Eriol started. "Hop on and I'll drive you away!" he shouted a little louder.
Tomoyo dashed and opened the door nearest to her and as soon as she got in, Eriol hit the gas and drove fast to escape the flashes of cameras.
When they finally lost the mob, which was just about a few seconds of fast driving, Eriol slowed down his pace and started for the park, which on the other hand will be a few minutes since he drove further form it while driving away from the mob.
"Why were you roaming around recklessly anyway?" Eriol asked her as if pointing out how dumb it was to simply walk out of the house if you're a teen singer superstar.
"I was looking for Syaoran," Tomoyo answered plainly.
She then gestured to jump in the passenger seat, desperately squirming her figured body through the little space between the driver's seat and the passenger seat like a little child.
"What are you trying to do?" Eriol asked as he glanced to where Tomoyo was squirming over to.
Tomoyo flopped in the seat before answering.
"Trying to transfer here," she said.
"I can see that," Eriol replied. "But why?"
"Because…" Tomoyo trailed off. She wasn't sure why she did so either. "I want to," she finally told him.
"So…" Eriol started. "Where are you planning to look for your fiancée?" he asked like a French actor.
"I don't know…" Tomoyo replied.
"That's a smart move…" Eriol insulted her playfully.
"Hey!" Tomoyo shouted offendedly.
Eriol giggled at the instant reaction.
"And what are you doing driving out here?" Tomoyo shot back, pointing out his stand. "And without Sakura?" she added, assuming she could catch him off guard.
"I'm looking for her," Eriol answered plainly. "And unlike you, I know where to look."
"And where would that be?" Tomoyo asked like she wasn't about to believe a word he said.
"The park," Eriol replied.
Tomoyo was about to ask why when a certain couple walking down the street caught their attention.
"Hey that's Syaoran!" Tomoyo yelled.
"And Sakura," Eriol added as he turned the car around.
He horned twice to, and successfully, draw the walking pair's attention. He then opened the car window when he saw the two turn around.
"Hey Sakura, what took you so long?" Eriol ansked imediately.
"Syaoran! I was looking for you!" Tomoyo shouted as she pokes her head in the opened window.
"I was in the park and Sya…" Sakura started in a trail. "I mean… Li here happened to pass by."
Eriol simply nodded with an "Oh…"
"We talked a little before deciding to go home," Sakura snapped when she saw Eriol's expression.
"That's right!" Syaoran agreed when he saw Tomoyo's cocked eyebrow.
A few minutes of silence filled in between them as each did not know what to say or do.
"C-C'mon… hop in and I'll give you guys a ride home," Eriol offered in a stammer.
Tomoyo returned to to the back seat – by the door this time – as Sakura and Syaoran hopped in as they were told to. The ride was filled with nothing buut silence and the eerie feeling of something was about to go wrong.
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Cupid watched the heart-breaking scene before him and sighed.
"This is all my fault…" he blamed himself. "I have to fix this…"
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