Fairy Lights

AN: We do not own Card Captor Sakura

Chapter 6: Brothers, Class and Yelling

Sakura ran down the crowded pathway, allowing her body to weave in and out the groups of people. The wet grass complained silently under her weight as she ran around a small group of friends. She slowed her pace slightly as she ran down the stairs and into the classroom. Breathing heavily she plopped herself down next to Li without the lecturer noticing. "Hey." She breathed as she pulled her notebook from her bag.

"Hey, to you too, so what happened this time?" Li asked with an amused smile. "Did you forget, overslept, got stuck in traffic…" He laughed as Sakura growled at him.

"Let's see… The dog got out and decided to go on an adventure, Toya pitched and gave me a lecture about 'sex before marriage' as if he is in a position to talk and my dad insisted that I had breakfast with him and my oversized jerk off brother."

She sighed. "So what did I miss?"

"Not much, unless if you call getting yelled at for making a noise, when it is actually the workers in the bathroom next door, important." Li growled annoyed.

"You're lucky she didn't caught you when you came in." Tomoyo whispered.

"If she told me to leave I would have obliged quite happily. Why the hell did I even pitch for this class?" She let her head drop on the table. "Oh, yeah, Li. Toya would like to have a word with you at some stage. I would advice against it."

"He's on the over protective mode, isn't he?" Sakura nodded at Tomoyo. "He nearly killed Eriol when he found out about us. I don't even know what he wants with Li who's only your friend."

Sakura laughed nervously. "Yeah." She glanced at Li and sank down in her seat. "Only friends."

Li looked at Sakura. "Is your brother really that bad?" he asked.

"Bad is an understatement, my friend." Eriol answered. "I really didn't think I will come out alive after our little 'talk'. And Tomoyo's only his cousin. I really don't know what he'll do to Sakura's boyfriend!"

Li groaned and let his head fall on his textbook. What the hell is he going to do? He doesn't want to meet her brother if he is a total psychopath. Not that her father is too normal. Then again, his own mother made numerous very sexual and extremely embarrassing comments the past few days. They were surrounded by psychotic grown ups and most of them seem to be rooting for a premarriagal pregnancy. This is totally abnormal, if not beyond the point of disturbing!

"But you and Sakura are only friends, aren't you?" Li grinned nervously at Eriol. "NO WAY !"

"Mr Hirragizawa and company, please leave this room immediately!"

"Leave this room immediately… yap, yap, yap! Urg! I can't stand that… THING!" Sakura growled as she fell down on the cool grass. Her honey brown locks flared around her face as she lay watching the clouds pass over her head. Her body suddenly shot up and glared at Eriol. "What the hell was the loud 'no way' for in any case?"

"As if you don't know!"

"Don't know what? I haven't got the faintest idea what you are on about, wizard."

"You and Syaoran!"

"What about us?" Sakura snapped at the pale man.

"You are more than friends, aren't you?" Her angry eyes glided over Eriol and Tomoyo's expectant faces. If they are waiting for a confession they are going to die doing so.

"I don't have time for this crap." She stood up and grabbed her bag before she angrily marched off.

"Oh, she's got it bad." Tomoyo mused with a pleased grin on her face as she watched her royally pissed friend push through a group of people. "She's got it real bad."

Li watched from a distance as Sakura stomped off. It was easy to see what had pissed her off, you only have to look at the two lovebirds' faces to know. He sighed and shook his head. 'This is not going to be easy.' He said to himself and started to walk after Sakura. After a while of searching he found her under one of the huge trees that covered another patch of grass. He walked quietly up to her and stood in front of her and waited until she noticed him. "Sakura?"

She ignored him and continued to read the same paragraph for the fifth time without taking anything in.

"Sakura, please don't ignore me." Li begged. He hated it when she was like this.

"I have nothing to say to you Syaoran Li, so either you go away or sit down and shut up. I have work to do."

"Why are you so damn angry at me? I didn't do anything." Li sat next to her but made sure he left enough space open between them so that she won't get angry with that too.

"I'm not angry at you." She snapped and slammed her book shut as she glared at him. "I'm angry them for their stupid comments. I'm angry at my dog, I'm angry with my dad and my idiotic brother. And I'm angry with myself! Are you happy now?"

"Yes and no. I am happy that you're not angry with me, and I'm not happy because I don't like to see you so angry, especially when you're angryat yourself. It's very unhealthy you know." Li explained.

"Unhealthy, unsmealthy… I don't give a flying raccoon. And I can be angry with myself if I want. It is absolutely none of your damn business who I take my temper out on!" She breathed through clenched teeth as she glared at him.

"That's where you're wrong Sakura." Li growled, he was getting really annoyed. "It is my business, because I care about you! It is my business because, hell, I think I'm in love with you!" He yelled and just got up and walked away, just so he can cool off. He can't believe he actually told her that.

Stunned she watched his back as he walked away, but her anger flared up once again. "Yeah well! No one said you had to!" She yelled at him. Her green glare fixed on him as he stood still. She knew he was going to do either one of two things: One, walk away or two, shake the living daylights out of her until she confessed something.

Li stood still after he heard what she yelled. He slowly turned around and instead of looking angry, he had a look of pity on his face. He walked up to her until he was inches away from her. "You're right, Sakura. No one said I had to love you, but I chose to love, whether you like it or not. Now you can stay pissed off, or try to kill me, I don't care. I would still love you."

He placed his hands on her shoulders, then shaking her violently he added. "You got that Sakura? I will still love you no matter what you do to me or what you think of me."

"You're fucking crazy!" She cried and tried to free herself from his shaking grasp, only to fall backwards with him on top of her. She could feel her chest rise and fall with heavy breaths against his. "You're bloody crazy." Her voice was barely a whisper as she spoke the words. "I'm the worst girl in the world and you just had to waste it all on me."

"I may be crazy, but you're not the worst girl in the world. To me you're the most beautiful intelligent, strong, witty girl I've ever met. Look, you may not be perfect, but hell, show me someone who is." Li did not move from his position, not caring what the other students walking around them may think. "You have to start giving yourself some credit, and stop criticising yourself ."

She shot him a glare and tried to pull herself out from under his weight. "I'm none of what you've just mentioned." She growled." I'm a stubborn tomboy with no sense of how to behave around men in a fashion that is expected of a girl. And I never had a boyfriend, I wouldn't even know what the hell to do with you."

Li stood up and pulled Sakura up next to him. He led her back to under the tree and the two of them sat down again.

"You may be a stubborn tomboy, but that's what made me fall in love with you, you stand your ground and don't give a shit what people may think of you. And about the part of not knowing how to behave around men, well that's just bull. You know how to behave around them, just be yourself. We're not that different from girls, well except for the body parts and hormones. And as what to do with me, that's also easy, follow your heart and it will come naturally to you. Trust me, you'll be surprised how easy it becomes natural to be part of that person. Just give it time, that's all. And take risks. Think of it as a challenge." Li didn't take his eyes of her as he told her that. His eyes were truthful and serious.

"Yeah, whatever." She mumbled and averted her gaze.

Li groaned at her answer. "You really are a woman of few words." He joked, earning him a glare. He chuckled and stood up. "Tell you what, how about we go see a movie tomorrow, just as friends and we'll take it from there. You can pick out the movie. Deal?" He suggested, holding out his hand to seal the deal.

"Okay." She shook his hand. "But I still don't know what to do with you."

AN-Tella: Jeez, Li is relaxed. He would have driven me up the wall! Oh wait, he did! Thanks to my friend who wrote his P.O.V.! Lizaan was really spiteful sometimes, but then again, so was I. Ha-ha! What a great friendship. Thanks for the reviews!

Tella

AN-Kayapride: Hey I was never that bad! But yeah, Li is relax, but I mean what is a guy to do? And yeah, we have a great friendship, sometimes, okay I lie, most of the time, it's weird but its still great! Thanks for all your comments!