Nanie- Whee! Bouncing off the walls is fun! Ah ha ha ha ha! I can see stars!
Disclaimer: No, no, no. You've got it all wrong, Sakura and co don't belong to me. They belong to Clamp!
A/N: Oh, one other thing, in this fic Meilin's not related to Xiao. Why? Because I have the power to make her not and am not a fan of cousin x cousin stuff.
And also, Sakura and Xiao Lang (yes, I'm calling him that not Li. Why, again because I have the power and feel like it...) aren't together yet.
Chapter 1: 7 2-Liter Bottles of Mountain Dew
Xiao Lang strode across the apartment floor. Walking to the door he turned and walked towards the window. Nearing it he turned and walked back to the door. The clock read 12:01. It was one minute past midnight and he still couldn't sleep.
The eighteen year-old finally sat down on his bed. He fell onto his back and looked up at the ceiling. Somehow his whole life seemed screwed up to him. He had finally started to get somewhere, he graduated from high school, he got a good job to earn some spare cash, and he even got accepted into a nice college that he'd later be attending.
But somehow none of that seemed to make him care at all. He felt his existence pointless. He felt useless, alone, depressed. It had been a new feeling for him, depression that is. It had been something that came on one day a year ago and hadn't really left. He always felt it nagging at him, even when he was having fun. He knew he needed to change, needed to become "normal" again, before he had figured it was just a phase of his teenage life, that was before it started getting bad. That was back when it was just every now and then, twice a month or so. Now it was daily. Depression and a combination of boredom were his main companions.
"Oh, Kami-sama, just let me be happy for once," he silently prayed. "Onegai, just let this feeling go away! I don't want it! Let it go-" His prayer was interrupted as the phone rang.
"Hello," he said.
"Mmm, Li-kun," began the distinctly feminine voice.
"Li-kun? She hasn't called me that in a long time. Does she hate me now," the boy thought. Again, it was the depression taking effect.
"I can't fall asleep," continued the voice, "so I decided to call you. Did I wake you?"
"No," Xiao Lang replied, sighing. "You didn't wake me. I hadn't fallen asleep yet, Sakura."
He heard Sakura sighing on the other end of the line. He vaguely wondered what she was doing at the moment. He knew he should be kinder to her, that he should talk with her more often, but again, the depression. It left him often feeling like not spending time with her, or anyone, for that matter.
"Never mind then," Sakura replied suddenly, "I should leave you get ready for bed, I'm sorry. I'll call back in the morning." She hang up the phone.
Xiao Lang listened to the beeping noise coming from his phone. It was annoying.
She had hung up on him. It took awhile to sink in, she had just gotten off the phone, didn't leave him protest, didn't even leave him say goodbye.
The phone rang again, he ignored it. He heard the answering machine come on and the recording begin to play.
"Good morning, cute little descendent!" rang the obnoxious voice of Eriol through the little machine. "Just thought I'd check in on you, even though you're probably asleep. Good bye, my cousin!"
He had just barely managed to restrain himself from pulverizing his machine when Eriol had called him "cute little descendent". And now, to his annoyance, the phone was ringing again.
"Eriol, if it's you, I swear you're dead!" he hissed under his breath as the familiar recording played again. But this time it was a different voice coming out of the box.
"O-o-ohyao, Xiao-kun," said a girl's voice while yawning. "I just arrived in Japan. I'll be staying at Eriol-kun's until I get an apartment. Just thought I'd let you know, bye bye. Oh, by the way, this is Meilin."
"Like I didn't already know," the boy muttered while running a hand through his chestnut hair.
"Screw the whole idea of me getting any sleep tonight," he muttered while walking over to his closet and pulling out a pair of tan pants and a dark green short sleeved shirt. After getting dressed he walked outside to his car.
Soon he was at the local Blitz, a small store and gas station combo that was open 24-7. He walked inside and proceeded to get a large full caff coffee and 7 2-liter bottles of Mountain Dew.
"Hell with it," he muttered. "If I'm not falling asleep and everyone else isn't we may as well all have some fun."
"Mr. Hot and Handsome, do you need help carrying those out to your vehicle?" the girl at the register asked. She herself was pretty and seemed to be intently staring at Xiao Lang. Her name tag read "Hi! I'm Xenia!"
"Sure," the boy muttered, seemingly unnoticing the girl's sudden obsession with him. He picked up his coffee and drank a gulp of it before grabbing one of his three bags of soda, allowing the girl to grab the other two.
He, and she, had finished putting the bags in the back seat of his car when she turned to him. Smiling she asked Xiao a question.
"Can I have your babies!"
Xiao Lang looked strangely at her for a moment. The girl looked back at him, both serious and excited.
"No," he finally managed to say.
"Aww, why not," pouted Xenia. "Oh fine!" She turned around and walked back into Blitz.
"Kami-sama that was weird," he said while getting into his car and starting up the engine. "Never before have I had a girl ask me that."
A/N: Opps, forgot to add this before... Anyway I typed the second chapter right after the first so... not much else to say here, except REVIEW!