A/N: Don't hit me! hides and runs anyway Yeeesss, this chapter is soooooo late. I'm uber sorry! Uber Uber Sorry! cries And the sad thing was…I've had it done for MONTHS now, I just didn't post it up. T.T I'm such a lazy ass! Sooooo, I have the next chapter ready to go and I PROMISE I'll get it up soon after this one. nods nods Okay…well…I prefer the next chapter, but you have to read this chapter first! Haha.
FELLOW READERS OF HATE OR LOVE: SORRRY! You're going to have to wait a bit longer…I have no inspiration for the story at the moment, and I don't want three filler chapters…the chapters may be a bit shorter but I'll try to get them up as soon as possible. So that story will be completed….just in a matter of time…
Chapter 11: Surprise?
Aushiteru: Wo Ai Ni: I love you.
By: Nalu Gurl
Three weeks had passed since Sakura, Wei, and Syaoran had gone to the summer house. It was now September, and Summer had ended. It hadn't gotten colder, the sun still shown, and they made frequent trips to the beach right outside the house.
Sakura had regained the lost weight that had been sacrificed during her sickness, and had also gotten much healthier. Both of their nightmares had slowly gone away. Syaoran, scared that the nightmares would never go away the first week, was ready to freak out. Thanks to Sakura running into the room, throwing herself on him with joy, and telling him her nightmares had stopped, he had stopped worrying, and soon enough, his went away as well.
At the moment, he was in the room, looking through the drawers for some surf shorts to go swimming in. Sakura had been on the phone for about an hour an a half with their family. Syaoran had refused to talk, saying he was to tired, but actually, he just didn't want to deal with them dragging on about if they where better and how things where going.
Wei had left to pick up food to cook for dinner. Sakura, to Syaoran's dislike, had started to get weird cravings. So far, the weirdest had been tuna sandwiches with rice. Syaoran, liking both the foods, felt queasy watching her eat them together, and had left to prepare him something else.
Just when he was about to take off his shorts to change into the swim shorts, a knock at his door was heard, and Sakura walked in. He buttoned the shorts, and Sakura covered her eyes. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" She rambled. A smile appeared at Syaoran's lips as he watched her, cute as ever. She seemed to still be talking on the phone. "Syaoran was changing…I walked in on him…OH SHUT-UP TOMOYO!"
Syaoran laughed, just guessing what the girl had said. 'Nothing you haven't seen before.' He guessed.
"I'm decent." He muttered, sitting on the bed with the surf shorts in his hand.
"Oh, okay. When we come home from the beach today, let's watch channel 2 news. Tomoyo and everyone will be on the news!"
Syaoran raised a brow, worried. "Really?" He asked.
Sakura nodded, as Tomoyo spoke to her. "Alright. Hold on." She looked at Syaoran, holding out the phone. "Eriol wants to talk to you."
Under the circumstances, Syaoran decided it was best to talk to him. He took the phone, walking out onto the balcony. "Yeah?" He asked, looking out at the ocean, the surf shorts still in his hands.
"How's everything going?" Eriol asked him, his voice sounded happy.
"Fine. What's up with you being on the news? You didn't say about us being where we are did you?"
"No, basically it's about the company. Kyoshi and I have been going to some meetings in your place. They wanted to talk to us about what had happened and if you had given up your task as leader. Don't worry. You'll see it on the news."
"Did they ask anything about Sakura and I?"
Eriol sighed on the other line. "Of course they did. They wanted to know about the baby, and whether or not you two would be married."
"You told the truth?" He asked, looking in the distance, seeing his Chevy malibu coming up. Wei was home.
"Yeah, no use in lying…"
"Yeah…" He watched as Sakura went out to greet Wei. "Wei's back with groceries. We wanted to go to the beach before the sun set. I'm gonna go. I'll tell Sakura to call you back later. Maybe tomorrow."
"Yeah, Kyoshi and everyone wants to talk to you as well."
Syaoran started to walk out towards downstairs. "Tell them to not mention anything about Logan unless it be necessary, alright?"
"Yeah, don't worry." He told Syaoran. "We miss you guys. How much longer?"
"I don't know. Maybe a month or two, maybe a week or a day, it just depends. I'll talk to you later."
"Alright. See you."
"Bye."
"Bye."
Syaoran put the phone down, noticing he still had the surf shorts in his hands anshe put that down as well. He opened the door as Sakura walked in with two hands full of groceries.
"Hey, hey, hey. Let me get some of that stuff." He grumbled, grabbing more then half.
"Syaoran! I could've carried it! I'm not weak."
"No, you're not, but you're pregnant." Syaoran reminded her.
"So! Look, I'm not even showing!" She grumbled, lifting her shirt up to show her stomach.
"I tried to tell her not to." Wei spoke, walking in. "She wouldn't listen. Syaoran?"
Syaoran blinked, staring at the girls stomach. He put the bags down and pointed to her stomach. "Hey, you're starting to show…"
"Am not!" She grumbled, looking down at her stomach. "No one shows this early!"
"Not completely true. You start growing, you just don't start showing really greatly until about four months." Wei spoke.
Sakura observed her stomach. "But I can't tell."
Syaoran moved over, bending down and observing her stomach. "No, you are growing." He told her, rubbing her stomach. She blushed slightly. Syaoran turned her to face to the side so Wei could observe her tummy as well.
"It's not obvious, but I can tell." He told her. Her face brightened.
"Really?" She asked. She put a hand over Syaoran's hand and smiled at him. "My tummy's growing! Our baby's growing!" She quickly hugged Syaoran, who hugged her back and smiled at Wei.
Sakura let go of Syaoran and ran into Wei's arms, almost knocking him down, causing him to drop the food. "Oh! I'm sorry!" She started to pick up the food when Syaoran stopped her.
"Go get changed for the beach. I'll help Wei." Syaoran told her. She smiled, nodded and left. Syaoran helped Wei pick up the vegetables, and then grabbed his surf shorts to go change. Wei stopped him before he left, calling his name as he started to put the things away.
"Syaoran…I'm pretty sure that we will be able to hear the baby's heart beat already…" He started.
Syaoran looked at him with a happy look. "Really? Can you do it today?"
"Well…I can't. I couldn't bring the machine with me…it's large. I left it back at home. But I know a doctor close by who owns her own clinic, and to make you feel safe, I'll accompany you."
Syaoran thought on it for awhile, then nodded. "As long as you're there. That way you'll know what's going on, and we wont get tricked into doing anything that could harm…or kill the baby." He smiled at Wei after a last thought and spoke once more. "But don't tell Sakura, 'kay? I want to tell her. Or we can surprise her."
"That can be arranged." Wei spoke, thinking for a bit.
Sakura came down and smiled. "Wei, would you be joining us?" She asked him as Syaoran walked towards the bathroom with his surf shorts.
"No, I'll be staying here to cook. Have fun, though."
"I'm sure we will." She smiled once more at him before walking out of the house to wait for Syaoran.
Syaoran came out soon later with two towels in his hands. He waved towards Wei, then walked outside where Sakura was waiting.
He smiled at her and motioned her to cross the street with him. When they got to the beach, Sakura laid out her towel, and laid on it. She turned to look at Syaoran but noticed someone else.
"I didn't know other people come up here at this time of the year…" Sakura stated, looking back at Syaoran with curiosity.
"You didn't know?" Syaoran asked. "Well, there's houses all the way up this street, like five or six of them, just summer houses. Tsugumi's mother told my mom that they where planning to buy a house up here."
"Oh…I wonder why they would want to buy one. Didn't they have a summer house in Japan?"
"Yeah, but you know that family. The more they get, the better they feel." He laughed and she joined in.
They sat in the sun after applying sun tan lotion to their skin. "Wanna build a san castle?" Sakura asked.
"I guess…But can I bury you after?"
"Of course you can! What will you make me?
"A surprise." He told her and she laughed.
"Alright, but sand castle first!"
"Alright. Come on!" They started to build the sand castle, which on their part was quite difficult, seeming as they had no bucket or shovel.
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Eriol looked at the things on his desk, confused at everything. Things just weren't adding up without Syaoran there to help them, no matter how many of the secrets Syaoran had told them about the company, nor the fact that they were raised learning all of these things. He sighed softly. Kyoshi sat across from him, looking over the papers. If it were possible, Kyoshi stayed up later then he, would go home so late, often early the next morning. He heard Meiling grumbling about it with Tomoyo more then once, and Kyoshi seemed to become dull with every passion towards Meiling. Eriol wondered what would happen to their relation if Kyoshi didn't stop staying here at the mansion so long. One particular discussion he heard rang in his head every time Kyoshi was near him.
"I want a baby!" Meiling cried. "It's no fair Sakura can have one, and she and Syaoran aren't even married! Why wont he give me one? Why?" She had broke down, cried hard into Tomoyo's arms.
Kyoshi's past was a blank to everyone. It was shortly explained to Meiling, not having a father and being neglected by his mother. No brothers or sisters, or as he put it, none that had ever really talked to him. He was 18 years younger then his brother who lived off in another country, a man that never talked to him. But that was all anyone knew. Nothing else, it was a big mystery.
"You should go home early, you know that, right?" Eriol spoke to Kyoshi. Kyoshi looked up at him.
"I can't go home early. Not when things this important---"
"Kyoshi, Syaoran accepted you because of the fact that you cared about Meiling. That you where a good person. He knows that you are. But if you keep acting like this…why don't you keep your promise to Syaoran? To take care of Meiling? To take care of your wife? Why wont you give her children. You yourself said you where working on it."
Kyoshi looked it over, then sighed. "I can't give her children. I'm not ready to be a father. I don't want to talk about this…" He looked away, then stood. "But you are right. I am avoiding my duties as a husband. I'm gone late hours while Meiling sits alone at home. I am, after all, in love with her. I should be with her."
Eriol smiled. "That's a good thing. Now get going, don't come back tomorrow. I'll call you if anything happens, got it? Spend the day with her."
Kyoshi nodded, then left the room with a smiling Eriol inside.
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"Wei-san?" Sakura knocked on his bedroom door. The man emerged, looking at the beautiful gal that stood in front of him.
"Am I needed?"
"Well, sort of. I was wondering if you'd like to come with me to the shopping center. I wanna buy a pie for tonight. Syaoran is sleeping, so he can't take me, and I don't want to go by myself. You know?"
"Yes, of course. I'll be ready in five minutes."
"Alright, I'll be down in the living room." She spoke and started to walk away. Wei went back into his room.
Sakura looked over all the cakes in awe. "Wow…look at them!" She laughed joyously. "I should get a chocolate cake cause Syaoran likes chocolate…I originally planned for just a pie…but an ice cream cake sounds better, no?"
"It sounds rather good." He replied as she pointed out a chocolate cake that had vanilla ice cream in it and chocolate frosting.
"Syaoran will be pleased." She spoke as she told the cashier which one she would be taking with her.
"Omigod!" The two turned to see a young women standing there with a glint in her eye. Sakura sighed slightly, but smiled nonetheless.
"Katayama-san! It's so nice to see you! The last I saw you was at the party." Sakura said, giving the girl a hug that she returned.
"Yes, yes. Unfortunately, I had to leave early then I expected. I saw someone…I needed to talk to…And what's the reason for such formality. Please, call me Tsugumi."
Sakura looked at her strangely, then nodded. "Alright."
"Oh, I'm so glad that I can see you here. I haven't seen you for awhile and I've been wanting to apologize to you. You see, I guess I use to like Syaoran and I was jealous you two where so close." She spoke. "But I noticed it was just infatuation. I've found someone else…he's, well, rather good, if you know what I mean." She laughed.
Sakura smiled at her, then looked around. "Oh, who are you here with?" She asked.
"Well, I caught the wrong bus here, and I don't know how to get back home. Mom told me just to take the limo, but I wanted to try a different way of transportation." She shrugged her shoulders. "Now I'm stuck here till the morning because I can't get in touch with anyone and my bus stopped running an hour ago."
"Well why don't you stay with us?" Sakura spoke.
"Sakura, Syaoran will be---" Wei started, but was interrupted.
"Wow! That's so generous of you! I'd love that! If it's not any bother, that is." She looked slightly worried.
"Oh no, it's no problem." she spoke as Wei sighed and grabbed the cake. "Oh, you have to see!" She started as they walked out the door. "I'm starting to show. See?" She lifted her shirt up and sure enough, there was the small lump on her stomach, barely visible. "I didn't realize it, but Syaoran did. After all, I'm almost three months, you know?"
"So are you and Syaoran going to get married?" She asked as they moved into the car and Wei started to drive off.
"Oh no, we're not together." She spoke, saddened at the thought. "He's staying with me though, and we're going to have the baby together."
"That's so sweet." Sakura nodded. They were silent for a long while, and when they pulled into the drive way, Syaoran was standing there, waiting for them. Sakura got out and smiled at him.
"I got your message that you where going to the store with---Tsugumi?" He looked at her with a low glare. What the hell was she doing here? No one was supposed to know about them being there. Even if Eriol, which he had said he hadn't, let it out on that interview, it wasn't on until an hour.
"Syaoran, Tsugumi's gonna stay with us for the night. She caught the wrong bus and can't find a way home."
"We can take her home." Syaoran said, taking the keys from Wei. "Come on, I'll do it---"
"Syaoran!" Sakura cried, looking embarrassed. "She's our guest. Come on Tsugumi, don't mind him." She motioned for Tsugumi to follow her inside the house and she followed, removing her shoes first.
Syaoran let a glare linger at the spot the two girls stood at until he finally looked at Wei who gave him an understanding look. "I know how you feel, Syaoran, but you do know that Sakura has a caring and loving heart, she's naïve and it hasn't quite clicked yet that she could cause trouble."
Syaoran nodded slightly and made his way in followed after Wei.
A/N: Soooo, how'd you like it? Hmmm? What's Tsugumi's plans? We all saw her walk out with Logan, and there was that…scene…haha! Sooo…what will happen? Stick by for the next chapter.
And once again, sorry for the long wait. -.-;
