Catching Kisses

'What are you smiling at?'

'Nothing.'

'Well, you're smiling at something.'

'There's nothing wrong with smiling.'

'Yes, there is. If there isn't a reason for why you're smiling, people are going to begin to think you're crazy.'

'Well, maybe I am.'

'Yes, you are.'

'I'm glad that you agree.' Syaoran used his chopsticks to shove the rice into his mouth.

'So did something happen?' Sakura asked as she tossed a sushi roll in her mouth.

'Are you still wondering why I'm smiling?' Syaoran laughed.

'Maybe.' A smile and blush painted on her fair façade.

Soft music played throughout the large dining hall. It was very fancy. Very fancy indeed. Eriol and Tomoyo had been chatting away at the table. Most of the food still remained on their dishes. And while that was happening, Sakura and Syaoran were having this little pointless conversation.

'Smiling Syaoran.' Sakura stated quietly.

'What was that?'

'I said Smiling Syaoran.' She repeated. 'That's you're new name if you aren't going to tell me why you're smiling.'

'Curious Kinomoto.' He came back. 'I shall call you Curious Kinomoto, on the account that you can't stop asking questions.'

'What kind of friend are you, Smiling Syaoran?' Sakura furrowed her eyebrows. A small group of strands of hair fell lightly around her face. 'Keeping secrets from me, then calling me names?'

Syaoran had this urge to sweep the hair away from her beautiful face and tuck it behind her ear. He would have if he were her boyfriend, but sadly, he wasn't.

'I guess I'm not a very good friend at all.' He smiled at her. The blush on her cheeks brought out the colour in her emerald circles. Her eyebrows were shaped to perfection, and her lips looked soft. That red shade certainly looked good on her. Syaoran was enjoying every moment of gawking at her beauty. The entire reason at why he had a smile on his face. 'I mean, if I did all of those terrible, terrible things. Our friendship is really…just pointless.'

Pointless wasn't quite the right word for it. What was really on his mind was being with this beautiful girl forever. A friendship is one thing, but a relationship is another. Forever, was also a different lifetime.

'Pointless?' Sakura questioned.

'Ahem, excuse me? Excuse me? Does this thing work?' A feminine voice echoed through the hall of chattering people. A small, muffled tapping noise followed. 'Oh there we go. Okay! I'd like thank you all for attending this wonderful celebration for myself and the increasing progress of Daidouji Co.' Tomoyo's mother smiled warmly at the crowd that had silenced in order to hear her words. 'I also want to celebrate a new proposal that is sure to be successful.'

Sonomi turned to look at her daughter, Tomoyo. She gave in a deep breath before continuing.

'At Daidouji Co., as some of you might know, we are starting a new line.' The woman said facing back to the entire audience. 'This line will be based off of and conducted by my very own daughter, Tomoyo.' There was a loud applause. Sakura whipped around to face Tomoyo, to find her blushing with embarrassment. Eriol and Syaoran were just as shocked as Sakura.

'Tomoyo, dear?' Sonomi continue to talk into the microphone while referring to Tomoyo. 'Would you like to come up and introduce yourself as an official employee of Daidouji Co.?'

It wasn't exactly a question. It was a indirect demand from her mother for Tomoyo to be polite and address the crowd formally.

Tomoyo stood up, but before she could Eriol had reached over and kissed her on the lips. It seems that more shocking things had happened then expected. Sakura began to smile from ear to ear. Syaoran grinned happily. Finally, they thought, two of their best friends were together after how long they have wanted to be with the other. Finally.

Low coos hovered around the hall along with various catcalls.

Tomoyo broke from their kiss. Her eyes wide in shock and soon, she broke into a smile. Eriol smiled back at her then reminded her she needed to be up there to present herself.

Tomoyo reached the podium and smiled shyly to the crowd of people that continued their murmurs and ridiculous giggles. She ignored some comments like 'Who's the guy?' from a few of the girls that she knew.

Sakura, on the other hand, giggled unstoppably. She fret around in her seat excitedly, half listening to her friend talk about how it was an honour for her to finally take part in her family's business and how she would do the best she could and was ready to take on the world.

'YOU NEVER TOLD ME!' Sakura smiled eagerly as her friend came back and took her seat. Tomoyo smiled back serenely.

'It was supposed to be a secret until now.' She told her friend, along with the two other handsome boys that listened. 'That's why I told you it was for my mom.'

Sakura laughed. How could she not have noticed it before? Tomoyo was giving her all these obvious clues. The questions on how her designs were, the talk about owning a clothing line and even fantasy ideas about Sakura being her model.

'Sakura?' Sakura looked at Tomoyo. 'You're hired to work for me as my model. And you can't say no because we start after school on Friday.'

Sakura stared at her. It took her awhile to process what her friend had just said, but once she got that down…

'WHAT!' Sakura yelled. Luckily, it didn't draw much attention because the music was blasting so loudly. 'Tomoyo! Couldn't you have at least run that by me first?'

'I couldn't. This whole thing was supposed to be a surprise.' Sakura groaned at how her friend had so many ways of making an offer you simply couldn't refuse. But this was Tomoyo, and you just had to love her.

'Me and Eriol are going to go for a walk around the building.' Tomoyo informed her friends before leaving them, hand-in-hand with the boy that planted a surprise kiss on her. It was quite obvious why they needed privacy or what they would be talking about. Sakura sighed and heaved her elbow onto the table and held her head, her fingers weaving through her hair, closing her eyes.

'Miss Sakura Kinomoto down the catwalk…and what's this? She trips? Real smooth…I can just imagine it.' Sakura heard a deep voice talk to no one in particular. Or was he talking to her. She opened her eyes to see Syaoran gently laughing to himself, or the thought of Sakura in her clumsy state as a model.

'First you were smiling and now you're laughing?' Sakura said annoyed.

'That's how the process goes, Miss I'm-the-new-model-for-Daidouji-Co.' Syaoran continued to laugh some more.

'Shut up.' Sakura playfully hit him. She looked around for a second and spotted Tomoyo's camcorder. A smile formed on her face. She took at and turned it on, making sure she knew where the record button was and the stop button was. She laughed out loud mentally, receiving a queer look off Syaoran.

'What's wrong with you?' He asked.

'Come with me.' Sakura pulled him out of his seat and sneaked around the tables and dance-floor to the halls outside.

'What are you-' Sakura cupped her hands over his mouth and told him to shut up.

She stayed quiet and listened out for low talking voices. Instead, she heard a familiar low giggling sound and soft chuckle.

Sakura peeked around the corner to find Tomoyo and Eriol sitting against the wall on the ground, staring passionately into each other's eyes, smiling, laughing and talking, all at the same time.

Sakura held the camcorder up to her eye and filmed them. Syaoran gasped in shock.

'What are you doing!' He whispered harshly in her ear. 'Are you crazy?'

Sakura smiled at him. 'Yep! Just as crazy as you.'

Now, that was hot. She was wearing a dress that made her more attractive than she already was, and she even admitted to being crazy. He liked this girl for being just as crazy as him. And together, they could rule the world with their craziness.

Sakura filmed Tomoyo and Eriol as they laughed telling each other how they felt all those times. How stupid they were for not saying anything. Then they kissed! They kissed and kissed and kissed! And Sakura turned the table with Tomoyo and was now the one filming all of her friend's adorable moments.

Syaoran didn't exactly watch. He didn't exactly know why he was there. He slumped against the wall and sat on the cold floor. He turned over to Sakura, beside him still video taping her best friend. Boy, was Sakura dead when Tomoyo finds out.

'Oooohh this is good.' Sakura laughed.

'This is disgusting.' Syaoran turned away from the amusement. 'I don't need to watch Eriol make-out with his new girlfriend.'

Sakura stopped recording and turned around to Syaoran, sitting in the same position he sat in. She gave a big sigh.

'What?' Syaoran looked at her curiously.

'Tomoyo beat me to it.'

'Beat you to what?'

'She got her first kiss before me.' Sakura explained. Syaoran cocked an eyebrow.

'You girls compete for that kind of thing?'

'No!' Sakura furrowed her eyebrows. 'It's just that…I don't know. You're first kiss a special thing.' She tilted her head up against the wall and stared at the ceiling.

'I want my first kiss to be special, like every other girl.' She spazzed out dreamily. 'In that special place, with that special someone. Just us. Alone. Together. I'd stare into his eyes and he'd stare into mine. Then, he'd kiss me. And everything would be so still. My lips would be soft and perfect for kissing.' She took in another adoring sigh at the wonderful thought. Syaoran stared at her as though he's never seen this side of her, because he hasn't.

He came up close to her face. Her lips were soft and painted red. They looked perfect. They looked kissable. They were alone…sort of. They were special…in a friendly way. They were together…as friends. Sakura turned to give him a queer look as to why he was staring. And now they were staring into each other's eyes. So what was wrong with this picture.

'Wha-what is it Syaoran?' Sakura felt a little uncomfortable as his deep amber eyes dug into hers. They were somehow calm but determined…serious. And the brown hair that fell into them made him mysterious and more so handsome.

'I haven't gotten mine too, you know.' He continued to examine her beauty. 'Do you see me making a big deal about it?'

'N-no! But…you're a guy. It's different!' Sakura was going to fall. She was going to fall off the wall onto the floor. Right into the open where she and Syaoran would be caught by their best friends.

'Syao-Syao-Syaoran!' Sakura squealed looking back as Syaoran continued to lean in closer to her. 'Can you not do that please?'

'Why?' He continued to move closer to her, and Sakura continued to squirm away while remaining on the same spot.

He was a bit too close, and Sakura was ready to fall to her side. Slowly she was sliding down the wall. She had to do something…quick! As she was close to the edge her hand shot out to make an attempt to hold on to Syaoran.

Lucky, she hoisted herself away from the edge, which got her closer to Syaoran's face…and his untouched lips as well as hers. Being that close to him made her feel uncomfortable, embarrassed and flushed for some odd reason. They were too close. You could tell by the way their noses touched, they way they could feel each other's breath brush onto their lips, and they way everything seemed to be focus on close they were.

'Aaaahhh!' Sakura pulled away shocked. For some reason, she forgot to release her grip on Syaoran. So as she yelped, shocking him, he fell down along with her.

He tried to catch her, he really did. But the best he could do was break her fall with his arm.

Tomoyo and Eriol stopped kissing and turned to see what noise had interrupted. What noise had disturbed and had lingered around for some time.

'Sakura? Syaoran?' Tomoyo was shocked to see her two friends there. But was even more shocked to see them together, in a certain position. 'OH MY!' She squealed. 'You two are finally together! Oh, I've been waiting forever for this! Finally!'

Syaoran got up from Sakura.

'WHAT!' They both yelled. 'What do you mean finally? We aren't together! No way!'

Tomoyo's smiling face faltered. Eriol continued to sit looking back and forth between his love and two friends that were caught in action.

'He's just my best friend, Tomoyo.' Sakura explained with a deep sigh.

'Yeah, we aren't planning on becoming a couple.' Syaoran gulped down his hopeful thoughts and put all his courage into these words of denial. 'We're just friends. Nothing is happening.'

'Not like you and Hiiragazawa, am I right?' Sakura pointed the accusing finger to Tomoyo and Eriol. They flushed with embarrassment and stood up together.

'I guess.' Eriol answered before Tomoyo could respond. Tomoyo looked up at him, her eyes wide with misbelieve of what the boy just said. She smiled at him.

'TIME TO CELEBRATE!' Another voice joined in. Everyone turned to see Tomoyo's mother, Sonomi Daidouji, carrying a case of drinks.

'MOM!' Tomoyo stared with her mouth dropped open.

Sonomi shoved the case into Sakura's hands, who was nearest.

'Drink to your hearts content!' Sonomi said winking to Sakura. 'We have two things to celebrate today on Tomoyo's half-'

'Mooooooooommmmm!' Tomoyo screamed.

'It's alright honey,' Sonomi smiled and winked at her embarrassed daughter. 'I've booked an extra room for you and your friends. It's the last room down the hall.'

And with that and an extra taunting 'have fuuunnnnn!', Sonomi Daidouji left all four teenagers to have mischievous fun.


Phewww! I decided to write another chapter with the little inspiration i had. This wasn't such a bad chapter...but compared to KYS, KYS is doing hott:D I'm so proud...thanks all! And don't worry. I promise I will finish my stories. Just keep me to it. XD