Author's Note!
Thanks to everyone who reviewed the final chapter of "With You"! I found them all amazing and some were just funny, like one person sent me one (I can't say who it was because of the new rule, you can look it up yourself) that was all "They had sex? Fifteen-year-old Sakura can not be pregnant!"
Well, that was funny, I thought, because I can just imagine someone sitting at their computer, yelling that at the screen.
Anyway, in that story, Sakura was sixteen. Sorry for the mess up. She is seventeen in this story!

With Or Without You
Chapter One: Syaoran's Return

I was bouncing. Literally. I was so freaking excited.

"Sakura, will you calm down?" Eriol groaned, tapping impatiently on the steering wheel.

"Hell no!" I grinned, poking my head in between the two front seats, where Eriol and Tomoyo, my two best friends, sat.

"You can't ask her to calm down, Eriol." Tomoyo giggled, turning to smile at me. "After all, she gets to see the guy she lost-"

"Shut it Tomoyo." I said quickly, pink spreading across my cheeks.

Only Tomoyo knew what had happened between Syaoran and I the night he was supposed to be in Hong Kong, no one else, and I planned to keep it that way.

At least, for a while.

"What are you talking about?" Eriol asked, looking, confused, at me through the rearview mirror.

"Insider." I grinned. "Please Eriol, turn on some damn music!"

"Will you shut up if I do?" Eriol smiled.

"Of course, just do it." I sighed.

Eriol nodded, pressing a few buttons on the stereo, the soft, and yet somewhat raspy, voice of Courtney Love ringing out over the speakers.

Hey this life is never fair
The angels that you need are never there
But sometimes he comes to me
In the dead of winter dead of night
He's all that I can see
Hold on to me
Hold on to me

"Where the hell did you get this?" I gaped at him, staring at the stereo as if Courtney Love would pop out of it at any moment and shove her guitar down my throat.

"I don't know…" Eriol frowned, turning to Tomoyo.

"What?" Tomoyo shrugged. "I heard she had this song in that new manga, Princess Ai. I wanted to see what it was like!"

"It's not bad, actually." I said.

"Thank you!" Tomoyo grinned, just as Courtney began to sing "I am the center of the universe! I am the center of the universe".

"Whoa, someone's cocky." Eriol smirked. "I'm changing it."

"No!" Tomoyo and I both shrieked as he changed the song.

"You…have got…to be kidding me…" I breathed as the next song came on. "Tomoyo, you made this CD?"

"What?" Tomoyo laughed. "I like Hilary Duff!"

"Die Duff die!" I screamed, pressing eject, tossing the CD out the window.

"Sakura!" Tomoyo gasped. "That was mine!"

"Well it's the road's now." I smirked, turning to Eriol. "Are we there yet?"

"Actually, we are." Eriol smiled, pointing ahead of us.

The airport.

I giggled, slapping my hands over my mouth to suppress the shriek that was threatening to explode at any moment.

"God you're weird." Tomoyo laughed.

I was so not that weird!

Syaoran, the boy who I was madly in love with, had gone back to Hong Kong for two months, two months, even over Christmas, and was just returning.

Yay!

I had first met Syaoran my sixteenth summer in Hong Kong. We had gotten off to a rather rocky start, but one night running around Hong Kong, searching for his cousin, had changed all that.

Well, for me it did. He said that when I was drugged by some pervert, that was when he'd fallen for me.

Nice?

Anyway, during my two month stay in Hong Kong, Syaoran and I had grown really, really close, and after a few make-out sessions in random placed such as behind movie theaters, it was finally time for me to go home.

And say goodbye to my summer love.

Too bad that, after I broke up with him and he hated me again, he had to show up at my school in Japan a few weeks later.

That had pretty much screwed everything over.

So, for a few weeks into the school year, everything had been pretty awkward…for me, at least, but when his birthday rolled around, the big seventeen, I had finally realized: I was still in love with Syaoran Li. And when Christmas came into view, along with Syaoran's departure date, I had become frantic, and finally spilled my guts just as he was about to get on the plane to go home for the Christmas break.

Well, I was pretty damn surprised when he'd shown up in my house, while I was alone, later that night, and confessed his love for me…again.

You can guess what happened after that.

So there I was, sitting in the back of Eriol's SUV, twitching because the love of my life was probably getting off the plane that second.

Finally, we pulled into the parking lot, and I was out of that car faster than you could say paranormal activity.

"Sakura wait!" Tomoyo shouted after me.

Yeah, right, make me.

I ran into the airport, darting past people picking up their family members and friends, almost tripping over an old woman and her huge-ass cart of luggage.

But I made it to gate G5 in no time at all.

Damn, I was early.

"Sakura…damn." Eriol breathed heavily, he and Tomoyo rushing up behind me. "You just had…to run…didn't you?"

I nodded. "Gosh Eriol, you really should try running a bit more, you know? That way you won't be so tired."

Eriol glared at me. "Shut up Kinomoto."

I smirked, turning back to the gate.

The doors were opened! The doors were opened! The doors were opened!

"Excited much?" Tomoyo laughed, resting her hands on my shoulders, holding me in place.

I hadn't realized I was bouncing. People were beginning to stare.

Then, the first bit of people began to walk through the doors.

Not Syaoran…not Syaoran…not Syaoran. Damn it where was my man?

I held my breath as person after person, each looking rather tired from the long flight, stepped through the doors, waiting impatiently for the familiar chocolate-haired seventeen-year-old.

I, like Syaoran, was now seventeen. I had turned it just at the end of November, along with Tomoyo and Eriol. We were only a few days apart, where as Syaoran was a good three weeks older than me.

Oh three weeks, big whoop.

"Sakura look!" Tomoyo grinned, pointing to the gate, which I had taken my eyes from.

Syaoran!

Oh, and Meilin, too!

They looked tired, so, so tired.

But oh God how good it was to see Syaoran again after two long months, which had felt more like two decades. I had spent most of my two months dragging around my house, moping. This had annoyed Touya greatly.

Syaoran looked up and smiled at me. "Sakura!"

I grinned and ran forward, throwing my arms around his neck burying my face in his chest. "I missed you!"

"Finally," he sighed into my hair, his breath warm and comforting, the familiar smell of his cologne wafting around me.

I was home.

Finally.

He pulled away from me, but only enough so he could look into my face.

"You have no idea what the past two months were like," he smiled as I fell head first into those dark eyes. "I missed you so much."

Then he cupped my face in his hands and kissed me.

Yum.

"I missed you too." I smiled as he broke the kiss, the familiar sensation still lingering. "And that, especially that."

Syaoran smirked as Meilin walked up behind him and gave him a crude nudge. "Syaoran."

Syaoran frowned and nodded. "Let's go then."

What was that about?

Whatever, who cared? Syaoran was back and I was complete!

Touya was gonna kill.

Syaoran laced his fingers with mine and we all turned, walking from the airport, out into the parking lot.

After, of course, we got their luggage.

"So," Eriol said as we all hopped in the SUV, Tomoyo in front, Meilin and I in the back, Syaoran in the far back. "How was Hong Kong?"

"Not bad." Meilin shrugged.

"Aggravating." Syaoran said bitterly.

"Why?" I asked, turning around in my seat so I could face him.

He smiled warmly at me. "It just was, I'll tell you about it later. But for now, is there a drive-thru we could go to? I'm starving."

XxXxX

Later that night, Syaoran, Meilin, Eriol, Tomoyo and I all sat outside in Eriol's backyard around a crackling fire, marshmallows and sausages on a small table beside us.

Yeah, we were having a wiener/marshmallow roast.

Hey, we went back to school the next day, why not?

I smiled, leaning back against Syaoran, his arms comfortably around me, his chin resting on the top of my head.

Could it get more perfect?

Doubt it.

"So what did you guys do while we were gone?" Syaoran asked, his breath tickling the top of my head.

"Mostly things with our family, seeing as it was the Christmas season." Tomoyo shrugged. "I went to Tokyo for a few weeks with my mom."

"I went to England for three weeks." Eriol smiled. "To visit family."

"And I was here, a loner, making snowmen and having snowball fights with myself." I smirked.

Did I mention that there was still snow on the ground? Yeah, there was snow on the ground and yet we were outside, sitting on blankets and crap around the campfire, trying to keep warm.

God we were insane.

Oh well, it was fun.

"I never knew you were from England, Eriol." Syaoran said, hugging his arms more tightly around me.

I missed his arms around me.

Eriol shrugged. "Well, I am. But God, I don't want to go back there, my aunts and uncles are just so…creepy! They insist on having tea and crumpets every few hours."

"I thought you liked tea, Eriol." Tomoyo said.

"I do." Eriol sighed. "Japanese tea, not English. It's just…weird."

I laughed, really, he was being stupid. "Okay then Eriol..."

"So, you two ready for school?" Tomoyo asked, pressing a cup of hot chocolate against her lips.

"Not even close." Syaoran groaned. "Everything was so hectic in Hong Kong, I wanted time to relax…guess not, though."

I just noticed it then, I don't know why, but Meilin was being really…quiet. As in freakishly quiet.

What was her deal? She kept on staring at Syaoran and I as if she wanted to scream something at us…or, rather, him. And when he mentioned how 'hectic' things had gotten in Hong Kong, her frown only deepened.

What had happened in Hong Kong?

Okay! Hope you liked it! Review!
Yeah, I leave you at a cliffie, but you guys should be used to my cliffies by now! There's a MAJOR cliffie in the next chapter...