A/N: Hey guys! This is chapter 14 now… you know what? I think I'm beginning to feel a little better… About my stupid problem…I won't make much of a deal of it… Ha, let him do the sulking all he wants, I don't care anymore. I won't care a single bit about him anymore. Enough with the good friend act, I wanna do something nasty, like beating him up with a huge fan like Chidori Kaname does to Sosuke Sagara or punching him… Whatever…

Anyway, forget about him, let's do my job! I'm here to write and not anything else! So, let's get it on! Chapter 14!

Disclaimer: Usual runts… CCS is not mine.

Chapter 14: The Reason

Monday, day 12

"Ohayou gozaimasu, Onii-chan. (Good Morning, Brother.)" Sakura greeted that morning, as she sat down the kitchen for her breakfast.

"Ohayou, Kaijuu. (Morning, Monster.)"

"Kaijuu janaii. (I'm not a monster.)" Sakura answered dully. Touya placed a plate of bread at the center of the table and smirked.

"I see you feel better now."

"Oh yeah, good and perfect." Sakura mumbled, rolling her eyes. "That's why I'm going back to school now."

"Oh yeah, speaking of school, you have to skip classes tomorrow until Wednesday." Touya said calmly, taking a bite off his bread. Sakura looked up.

"Do you realize what you're saying? That would be five days of absent already!"

"Tomorrow is a clean-up day." Touya explained, looking at her.

"You could've done that on weekends."

"Well, Kaijuu. If you may have forgotten in which I suppose you have, our two weeks of total freedom is over and dad is coming back on Wednesday, so I suppose we have to clean our house so no more fussing dad when he returns." He continued, choosing to ignore Sakura. Sakura was surprised inside her thoughts.

Oh yeah… Dad's coming home on Wednesday… and… He's leaving… on Wednesday…

"Are you by any chance listening to me, or are you out of your mind and left your brain on the beach?" Touya then asked irritably. Sakura frowned.

"I am listening, Onii-chan."

"Good because if you aren't…" He looked at her darkly. "You're dead."

"Oh thank you for the reminder." She said sarcastically, drinking her juice straight. "The next time I try to use my brains to think I'll remember that. I'm off."

"Remember what I told you!"

"Hai… Hai!"

"Again?" Tomoyo asked, exclaiming that lunch. They were at their usual place every lunch, under a Cherry Blossom Tree.

Sakura nodded, sighing heavily. "I guess I have to… it's pretty important you know… Dad always wants everything clean. It's all right, I already told Terada-sensei, and he told me that as long as I catch up with my studies, it's all right."

"Well… I guess so…" Meiling muttered back, thinking. "Anyway, Saku… Did…you and Xiao Lang had talked already about him leaving on Wednesday?"

Sakura stopped, and looked at the two of them. Then, she smiled slightly. "Hai."

"Well…?"

"Well… what?" Sakura asked back.

"What have you talked about?" Meiling asked again.

"Nothing." Sakura sighed, digging back to her food. "What's there to talk about?"

"Talk about? You know there is." Meiling frowned. Sakura looked at her and laughed.

"Meiling-chan… there's nothing to talk about. It's not us." She smiled sadly. "It's never been us. All those that happened in the beach… Honestly… I am very happy… But… that day is over. That day of pretension… because he's leaving… and were different… right?"

"Sakura-chan…"

"Mou, stop looking at me like that!" Sakura pouted, stuffing a sushi into her mouth. "Do I look like someone has died from the family?"

"Sakura-chan… you're going to be absent until Wednesday…" Tomoyo finally said, sighing heavily.

"That's just two days… I'm thinking, maybe Touya just really needs my help in cleaning the house." Sakura smiled once more. "We just really need to clean the place up for Dad."

Tomoyo was about to say something when the bell has rung.

"Lunch is over." Sakura sighed, jumping up. "I-ko, (Let's go,) before our next teacher comes." She smiled, and ran back into the campus.

Meiling and Tomoyo watched her go, and both sighed.

"I knew something's not going on pretty well within those two." Meiling said, repacking her now empty lunch box. "Syaoran got home yesterday a little bit irritated and cold than the usual. And I've been asking him why… but he just won't answer."

"Sakura-chan… She's always like that." Tomoyo said back, standing up and began walking back to the campus, Meiling beside her. "She doesn't want us to worry about her."

"Nee, Tomoyo-chan…" Meiling said, after a short pause. "Do you really think she's taking an absent because of her father and Touya-san?"

Tomoyo paused, thinking. Then, she shook her head. "Partly. But you know her… She always finds reason to do what she wants. She's holding the school against his brother like a crown."

"What do you mean?"

"Well… Sakura wouldn't let the reason cleaning up make her take an absent. She can find ways to clean. Besides, Yukito-san is there to help Touya-san, there won't be a problem with that."

"But she chose to clean instead and help in the house." Meiling said, scratching her head in confusion.

"Hai. I think she's using it to get away from the thing she's facing. It's honestly a problem she's making herself."

"So… that means… It's not because of her, isn't it?" Meiling asked.

"Iie… I think it's because of Syaoran." Tomoyo sighed, looking at Meiling. "Those two are crazy."

"You said it yourself." Meiling smirked. "They just won't admit it to each other."

"Yeah." Tomoyo said back. "C'mon, we've gotta hurry."

"Hai…" Meiling sighed, and ran after Tomoyo.

TBC

A/N: So… now I'm beginning to an end…I don't believe this… I'm nearing to an end to my story! Waaaah! I am so gonna miss you guys… Sigh… oh well…

Thank you for reading this… OK? So… please review… and keep on reading… thanks! Aja aja fighting!