Reaquainted...forever?

SUMMARY - Sakura and Syaoran were best friends. Syaoran goes back to Hong Kong for a long time, leaving Sakura to be insecure and only open to Tomoyo and Eriol. When he comes back into Sakura's live, she has some particular feelings to deal with... R&R please!

TaG – Hi everyone again! How do you like it at the moment? Personally, I think I'm going into crawling-pace in my development of the story, but ideas just 'pop' into my head ya know? But otherwise, it's all good I guess : ) of course, review me if you have any queries or words or words of disapproval of praise, I don't really mind…

(A/N) The following will be shown:

Normal Dialogue

CHANGE OF SCENE/TIME

"Talking"

Characters' Thoughts

(Author's Notes)

POV - point of view

(What happened previously...)

"Let GO okay Tomoyo-chan? Are you REALLY that desperate to... uh practise your piece?" Eriol changed his tone so that everyone wouldn't find out that they were ditching class.

"Well Eriol, you know me. I LOVE my music. C'mon! Let's go!" And so they went through the door, through the corridoors, which would lead them into a sense of unknowingness...

CHAPTER SIX - Unknowingness, Part Two

So there Tomoyo and Eriol were, going through the hallway, Sakura, looking for Syaoran around the school, and where was Syaoran you may ask? Well... he was lost. Literally. He had exited the school, but now had no idea where to head off to the direction of his home.

Syaoran's POV

What the hell. I am nearly as klutzy as Sakura, okay; let's rephrase that; that was just a bit harsh. I was never good direction-wise. But, that baka teacher just had to aggravate me didn't she and make me leave class. Oh wait, I caused that... Er... Well I don't even know how to get back to school; perhaps I should have waited for the others...

Seeing as I didn't get any kind of response from IV, I looked around at my surrounding. Well... perhaps I was wrong, because I definitely knew where I was now.

Penguin Park.

Normal POV

Syaoran saw a bench nearby, and decided to sit down. Sighing to himself, he leaned against the bench and shut his eyes, with the sun's rays making its way to him. For how long he lay there, Syaoran had no idea, but that was quite relaxing. The sensation of the nature around him was really calm and peaceful, and the smell of the flowers nearby was intensifying... Speaking of flowers, he sniffed quietly, and caught the scent of, a sakura? He couldn't tell exactly... and now, there was a shadow cast over him. Syaoran shivered involuntarily, he didn't want to open his eyes, but because of the feeling in his limbs which were shaking, advising him to open his eyes, he obeyed. And there stood Sakura.

"Syaoran-kun! Where have you been? I've been... really worried about you..." Sakura whispered softly, glad that nothing had happened to Syaoran, though she had become concerned when he had been shivering... Syaoran laughed,

"Gee, you really are something like Concernity Princess huh? Just like what Tomoyo said." He grinned, but stopped as he saw the expression of embarrassment on Sakura's face, "Oh you don't like hearing that? But, that's a good thing you know right?" When she only nodded, Syaoran shrugged, and motioned for Sakura to sit next to him. She did as instructed and relaxed her muscles,

"Ah, it's really nice being here! Syaoran, you picked a good spot!" She giggled to herself. Syaoran blushed a little bit and muttered, "Well, it's good when you're around. Otherwise... well..."

Suddenly, a squeal of excitement ran through the air, causing the pair to jump up in fright.

"U-uh... what was that?" Sakura asked nervously, looking around expecting to see a ghost of some sort coming to haunt her. Syaoran laughed unsteadily, and answered,

"It was... someone? Or something? Wait; ignore what I just said..." And they ended up in stiff silence.

Meanwhile, hiding behind some bushes near the bench where Syaoran and Sakura were, was Tomoyo and Eriol, the offender being Tomoyo, who had squealed when they had found the pair, after ten or fifteen minutes... Eriol nudged Tomoyo and muttered,

"Why did you do that? I thought the purpose of hiding was to not get caught." Tomoyo only had a mischievous gleam in her eye, and didn't pay much attention to Eriol, only listening to the conversation between the two at the bench. Eriol sighed, Wow; Tomoyo is really into this match-making stuff isn't she? How long has Sakura suffered this now I wonder? Luckily, Tomoyo hasn't done anything to me... yet. I must watch out though, she may enforce something...

BACK TO THE PAIR AT THE BENCH

Sakura was sitting uncomfortably on the bench, her hands on her lap, her knees tight together and her shoulders hunched up, she stammered quietly,

"Um... er... S-Syaoran? Do you know where your house is? I-I could help you find it... I mean, the streets here have changed, so perhaps you need my guidance? Um... Tomoyo-chan and Eriol were also going to come, but I'm not too sure if they're still in class or not..."

"WHAT!" Syaoran sounded very disapproving. "What the heck has gone into them? They should have just come with you then! Should we go back for them then if that's the case?" He sighed, and waited for Sakura's response, who remained silent, but looking around as if the other two would suddenly appear from thin air... Speaking of which, Tomoyo and Eriol decided to run through the entrance of the park waving enthusiastically, well Tomoyo was anyway. Eriol just looked tired.

"Where did you guys go? Did you know how long it took us to find you?" He muttered. Sakura jumped out of her seat and apologized quickly, "Gosh! I'm so sorry! Um... I guess I should have waited right? Like what Syaoran said anyway..." She fiddled with her fingers uncertainly. Tomoyo grinned, and murmured so that only Sakura could hear:

"Well, you went looking for dearest Syaoran didn't you?" When Sakura only turned a deep shade of pink, she continued, "But, you'll be let off… for now. Don't let me catch you doing anything indecent." And Sakura's face, had thus, gone into a violent shade of purple.

"T-Tomoyo! What could you be thinking! I wouldn't do anything of that kind! Though, as for you sweet cousin of mine…" Sakura looked pointedly at Tomoyo, who blushed and refused to meet the eyes of her fellow best friend. Meanwhile, Syaoran and Eriol, who had saw that Sakura would now be facing an amount of torture from Tomoyo, decided to leave them alone and went to sit back down on the seats which had previously been occupied by Sakura and Syaoran.

AT THE SEATS

"Syaoran." Eriol began. Syaoran only stared at him, "What." Eriol sighed, and continued,

"Well, you see, that raven-haired girl is really bugging me."

"Your problem."

"I haven't even finished yet."

"It's still your problem too isn't it?"

"Well, yes… and no." Before Syaoran could interrupt him, Eriol carried on, "Tomoyo's having a sleepover, I'm invited, Sakura-chan's invited, and so are you. Which is the problem." He finally let Syaoran speak.

"W-what…! You're kidding me, right?" When Eriol only blinked back at him as a response, Syaoran grimaced.

"Why am I invited? Your lover girl's gonna dress me up in some crazy-as costume again!"

--Flash Back--

"Hi Li!" A seven-year old Tomoyo grinned as she opened the door of her mansion, "Everyone's here already, oh, but except for Sakura. Come in anyway!" She called as she drifted back to the living room where everyone was sitting down, talking to each other. Syaoran walked across the room, and sat stiffly next to Eriol, whom he was only comfortable sitting with. All the other people (mostly girls) stared at him with light shining in their eyes, the works. Eriol acknowledged Syaoran appearance with a simple nod of his head, and continued reading his book which he had brought with him.

"So…" Syaoran motioned to the book, "Do you find that any good?" Finding that Eriol did not reply to his question, Syaoran decided to drift into thought, a few seconds later interrupted by Tomoyo:

"Li! Come with me quickly! I want to show you something!" Seeing the eagerness in Tomoyo's high-pitched voice, Syaoran followed Tomoyo outside of the room, into the hallway, up the stairs and into the first room on the left. When they arrived at their destination, Tomoyo gathered a bunch of keys which she found in her pocket, and unlocked the door. Wondering what could have been so amazing; Syaoran walked through after Tomoyo, and gazed around the room. It wasn't all that big, compared to the rest of the rooms which Syaoran thought were most likely huge, and to add to that, there was hardly anything in it. The room seemed more like a walk-in closet than anything. Tomoyo looked around the room, and found a box which was about the size of an encyclopedia; taking out something which was wrapped in bubble-wrap. Curious to see, Syaoran looked down to the bubble-wrap, which was then shoved in his face instantly.

"Hey! What do you think you're…" Unfortunately, Syaoran did not finish his sentence, for Tomoyo had dashed out of the room, and quickly locked the door before Syaoran could think to get out. She called to him:

"Don't worry! Just change into it and I'll open the door! I wanna see how it looks!"

Poor Syaoran. He was thinking very nervously about what the heck was Tomoyo talking about. Wow, luckily, it's clothes, not anything else. But, alas, Syaoran would be very unfortunate indeed, for this was before he knew that Tomoyo had a passion for designing clothes, and in fact had just created a new daring style…

MINUTES LATER

Syaoran, who had decided that not changing would result in an ever-lasting torture in the "closet-room" which he had named it, had changed into the garment and banged on the door, requesting Tomoyo to unlock the door. When she did, a sudden blast of light hit Syaoran's eyes, and he moaned in pain, for the closet-room had no windows whatsoever inside. Shutting his eyes rapidly, he allowed Tomoyo to guide him back to the living room, where he received loud snickers, and a familiar one which came from our star of the show, Sakura Kinomoto.

He (Syaoran) realized moments later that everyone in the room was laughing at him, and he opened his eyes. Reaction: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Syaoran cried, and ran off to the nearest bathroom in the house. Explanation: He was wearing a green dress, which had layers, and simple glitter which covered the whole of the dress. Oh, and also: It was a mini, much to Syaoran's displeasure…

--End of Flash Back--

Syaoran frowned as the incident flashed through his mind. Eriol smirked, and said, "Well, this time, I'll try to keep my dog on the leash. Alright? Though, you really did look splendid in that fine dress."

Syaoran growled in reply, "The only thing she got right was the colour. Baka." And so he tried to take his mind away from that faithful day… and Eriol interrupted his thoughts.

"I can't convince her to not let you go, so, if you don't want to be going to my funeral, you better come. You know how stubborn Tomoyo can be." Syaoran sighed, he knew Eriol was right, but thought to him that he would run around naked before he would let Tomoyo dress him up again… though Tomoyo's style of designing had highly improved, with Sakura being her model at various times… who looked pretty fascinating in all the attire… Wait, how did I start into that? I thought I was on about that crazy Tomoyo…

"Alright then… I'll go. But you can go tell the girl that. I won't ever forgive her if she 'dresses me up' got that? Exact words mister I'm warning you…" Syaoran muttered, surrendering to what would become his misfortune.

"Okay!" Eriol cheerfully answered, "But you can go ask her for details, or Sakura. Well, let's get going to your place then!" He waved and ran off, leaving Syaoran frozen in utter dazzlement. Sakura had by then, left the park as well, so Syaoran looked around for Tomoyo, but found that she had disappeared as well. Sighing, he decided to find his way back to his house, not looking forwards to anything, especially a certain lunch which would occur the following day…

MEANWHILE

Eriol found Tomoyo a few buildings away, sitting down at a bus stop, grinning in delight. He sat by her side and stared at awe at the sight of the dazzling beauty in front of him. The named one looked to her side and saw Eriol there, and leaned in for a quick kiss on the lips. Arising, she asked faintly,

"So did you ask Syaoran-kun, Eriol?" Eriol whispered, "Yeah, of course Tomoyo-chan. For you as always…" Tomoyo's smile went up a few more notches and she clapped her hands together, exclaiming at the top of her voice:

"AND THUS BEGINS OPERATION – REAQUAINTANCE!"

Eriol's grin didn't falter as he murmured, "Well said Tomoyo. Now let's get going."

Japanese Dictionary:

Baka – Stupid Idiot