I made this chapter longer and I guess more meaningful…so I hope you like the revised chapter 5 much better than the last time…lolz :) of Akira…sorry again.

Chapter 5: Candidate for love

Sakura sat on the park's bench waiting for the birds to come and grab some of the bread crumbs she threw on the ground. She waited patiently until they flew down and ate their own shares. She kept silent so not to scare them of, watching them for the last time before standing up, brushing away the excess bread crumbs that littered her skirt. 'I wish I could be a bird, flying freely. Flying up in the air, away from all the pain of the world, the pain of Love.' she thought frowning.

"Oww!" she shouted when a cup of hot coffee poured over her sleeves, breaking her out of her thoughts.

"My god! I'm so sorry!" the boy apologized profusely, staring guiltily at the brown stain on Sakura's shirt

An empty Styrofoam cup lay at his feet. He had dropped it in surprise when he accidentally bumped into her. Sakura didn't answer him at first, trying to get the coffee out without much success. "Wait..." he said getting a handkerchief from his pocket "Here use this" he offered, handing her the handkerchief which she accepted gratefully, "I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to bump into you. Guess I wasn't looking where I was going" he admitted sheepishly, still watching her.

"No problem…" Sakura smiled, though she had to admit she felt quite awkward right now. The stranger right in front of her is quite attractive, with his hair disheveled an not to mention his hair is in a deep shade of back paired with intense honey colored eyes. His body was well build up just like…'Syaoran' Sakura thought with his name just mentioned in her thoughts made her frown.

"Are you okay?" she heard the stranger's concerned voice, it made her face look up and had an eye to eye contact with him.

"Y-yeah, I guess…" Sakura sctratched her head shyly "Uhm…Sakura Kinomoto" she said while slowly bringing up her hand to have a formal shake with the stranger. The stranger looked at it, like he was studying the shape of her delicate skin before taking her hand. "Akira Todoshi" he said and smiled widely at her. Sakura smiled back at him and sat on the bench once again this time offering the blank space for him. Akira sat beside her with no hesitation.

"You know…" Sakura started the conversation, the formal one I guess "Tomoeada is such I small place, and I almost memorize all the faces around here, I was wondering if you are new around here…" she finished.

"Yeah, I arrived about 2 days ago, and my parents are planning for me to study in University of Tomoeada"

"Wow! Then I'll see you around there then!" Sakura smiled wider.

"Really? You study there too? And from what I see, we are about as much as the same age, which means we would be either classmates or batchmates" Akira stood up "I heard that there would be an upcoming fair…" he said stealing a glance from Sakura.

"You know, since I won't have anyone to help me around my booth you could help me, and I could tour you around the school grounds, that is if you like…" Sakura offered.

"Yes!" Akira half-shouted, truth to be told, he likes this girl…A LOT!

"Great then! See you in school the Todoshi-san" Sakura stood up from the bench and bowed nicely.

"Akira would be fine Kinomoto-san, I mean we are friends now aren't we?"

"Then in that case Akira-san, Sakura would be fine, ja!" Sakura waved and disappeared.

Sakura and the other students sat on the their places once their teacher opened the classroom doors. You could see from Sakura's face the excitement is painted all over. "Now, now, class! Settle down!" the teacher shouted. "we have a new student around here, so we better welcome him warmly" he finished and he went back towards the door and open it. A boy with black hair and honey brown eyes entered the class with a smile plastered on his face. This made Sakura smile when she recognized his features.

"Akira Todoshi, nice to meet you" he bowed and gave a killer smile which earned him a lot of screams from the girls and grunts from the boys.

"Now, Todoshi-san asked me a favor if he could choose the person to guide him around the school" the teacher informed "and I gladly said yes, so pick"

Girls were all screaming and raising their hands, very eager to get to know this guy better, which earned them no response or a single look from him. You could see that Akira was not paying attention to any of them but instead looked at her. Everybody's gazes fell on Sakura when they noticed Akira looking at her, she waved at him and Akira pointed at her. " I'd like Sakura-san to guide me!" he said with a smile. "Gladly! Akira-san" Sakura smiled back and walked towards him.

"Yo, Kinomoto!" a guy from the back shouted, which she quickly recognized as one of Syaoran's buddy.

"Yeah?" she asked.

"You guys know each other?"

"Yeah met him yesterday…"

"Right! Okay then, bye dudes! Have fun together!"

Which earned him a secret glare from Syaoran.

Sakura prepared all the ingredients for the food she'll be cooking today for the fair. She checked if the pan is hot enough and if the gas is good enough for the whole day. After hours of preparing everyone is ready to start the fair, they fixed for one last time before finally opening the gate officially. Many people from many ages went in, from young to old. Sakura happily served the customers, 'This was harder than I thought, now I really know when God said no man is an island, HELP' Sakura thought to herself.

"Give me one here!" shouted a young girl

"Over here too!"

"And here, hurry up will you?"

'That was rude…' she thought ones again cursing that person.

"Need a hand?" someone asked.

Sakura turned around and emerald eyes met piercing blue eyes, yes you guessed it Akira Todoshi

"Thank God you came!" Sakura shouted 'Thought you'd never come" Sakura smiled. Akira returned the smile and went forward to help her out.

Sakura and Akira talked once in awhile, that is if their booth would be empty from customers they would talk. This made their relationship as friends grew, it gave them bonding, it was like Sakura was forgetting how she failed miserably with her first love and how her stable walls became weaker every time she spent more time with him. It scared her, it took long before she was able to build up these walls only to slowly ruined with one or two person, Syaoran the failed love and Akira a candidate for love. She shivered at the thought of how much longer it would take her to hold up these walls, she admitted that she is a weak person only to be strengthened if she finds hope or good advices from her friends. She glace at Akira for one last time before the fair ended with a ring of a bell.

"Thanks for the help by the way…"

'No problem, as long as it's you"

'What did he mean by that? Does he like me? 'Sakura thought and that thought made her red. She shook that thought away and smiled at Akira again.

"Yeah, I'm glad I met you!" Sakura chuckled.

'Yeah me too…' Akira thought. 'I think I'm falling badly…' he smiled and turned bit red at the thought.

"That's so KAWAII!" Tomoyo shouted between Eriol and Syaoran.

Eriol smiled and sneak in a glance towards Syaoran 'What's that I see? Hmm… Is he jealous?...interesting'

'Damn you Akira!' Syaoran thought 'oh damn! Where did that come from?' he thought again this time with a wild shake of his head.

Next chapter would be mostly how Eriol and Tomoyo survived the fair together :)