Chap5 I'm Gonna get 'cha I'm gonna Eat 'cha!

Sakura woke the next morning tired and a little sore. It took her a minute to remember why she was on the couch when last nights movie came to her mind and she almost had a heart attack when she noticed the blanket on her. Resisting the impulse to scream she kicked it away franticly her heart racing. 'Where the hell did that co- Syaoran' her pensive expression turned to one that neither hid nor masked her scheming thoughts. Oh he would pay for this one or her name wasn't Sakura Kinomoto.

She got up from the couch, wicked smile still in place and made her way over to Syaorans room. It was still early and he was un-doubt-ably still sleeping. This thought only made her smile more.

She entered the room silently glaring daggers when the door squeaked in protest to the un announced intruder, warning the rooms inhabitants of the mischievous girl that quietly prowled over to Syaorans bed.

She smiled over his sleeping form wondering for a moment if this was really a good idea before shrugging it off reasoning it was all in good fun and wasn't awkward at all. So shrugging she carefully lifted one end of his blanket scrunching up in a ball near his feet and slowly, taking care to nudge him ever so slightly waking him, not to fast or all would be ruined but not to slow so as when her face was in his he wouldn't still be sleeping.

And so she crept slowly upward. She could see and feel slowly rousing beneath her and she smiled wickedly as her head poked out of the covers. His eyes were just beginning to open when he saw her devious face and his eyes flew open wider then she had ever seen in her life and let out a very loud horrified yelp. Wildly flailing his arms and legs causing her to be shoved to the floor as Syaoran moved franticly to the other side of the bed still breathing hard. Only when he heard hysterical laughter did he calm down and look over the other side of the bed.

Sakura looked up through her laughter at his flushed face, rolling onto her back and pointing at him trying to speak. "You should have seen your face! AHAHAHAHA!" she continued her bouts of laughter clutching the sides of her stomach as she rolled side to side uncontrollably.

Syaoran just stared for a moment, before the contagion of her laughter hit him as well and he joined her. After a few minutes their laughter died down and they sat in their respective places, she on the ground and he on the bed, catching their breath.

"Oh man, that was a good laugh" Sakura said wiping her watery eyes.

"I think I almost had a heart attack when I saw your face"

Sakura almost laughed, before she doubled back and looked at him in mock anger "Is that to say I'm ugly?"

Syaoran just smiled, "Looked in a mirror lately?"

Sakura pouted. "Well have you showered lately! I swear my nose almost died when I was under that blanket."

"And who asked you to be under there?"

"Well it was the least I could do after you put that blanket on me last night."

"Yes well I didn't join you under that blanket."

"Well we all know you wanted to" she said this with a grin smiling in a mocking seductive way that made them both laugh.

"Wanted to what?"

Both occupants turned surprised towards the door where they saw a still half-asleep Tomoyo leaning on the doorframe.

Sakura smiled getting up and hugged her friend quickly good morning. "Nothing, we were just playing around, a few heart attacks here and there. Just friendly chatter."

Tomoyo gave her a look assessing the situation in which she had unknowingly walked in on. "Uh huh, right sure."

Sakura gave her friend a warning glance. "I'll go make us some coffee." Tomoyo nodded but stayed in the doorframe watching Sakura leave before turning back to face Syaoran. No way was she going to let something like this be dismissed so quickly.

"Friendly chatter huh? What was that about I heard something about joining you in your blankets?" She eyed him suspiciously and almost cracked a smile as his cheeks adorned a slight pink hue.

"Nothing. We were just joking around. Movie references to last night. You know, when that lady in Juan was under that girls covers? Yeah...Don't worry it wasn't anything like...that. You know, we're just friends. A few pranks here and there a good laugh is all."

Tomoyo eyed him quite seriously all hints of the previous lightness in her expression vanishing. "Just...make sure it stays friendly. I know that look you give her so watch it mister."

Syaoran looked at her puzzled. He was giving off a look now? He sat quite puzzled for a moment. As Tomoyo turned to leave she doubled back and gave him a sneaky grin. "You might want to put a shirt on or Sakura's not going to be the only single girl blushing at the sight of you."

Syaoran smiled bashfully blushing before turning his smile into a sneaky grin. "Should I tell Eriol to be jealous?"

At this Tomoyo laughed. "Please. You've got nothing over Eriol. But tell him whatever you want. I can play either scenario to my advantage."

Syaoran paled as she walked out. That. Was defiantly one girl you never wanted on your bad side. He could recognize that plotting stare a mile away. Having Eriol as your cousin could do that. Syaoran sighed and shrugged it off, taking a few things from the dresser and made his way to the bathroom. Sakura had a point. He really did need to take a shower.

He walked into the kitchen a half-hour later and was greeted by the four girls. Obviously the other guys were taking today to sleep in, and had he not been so...rudely awakened he supposed he would still have been sleeping too.

Sakura looked up as she heard him come in and smiled. "I see you took that shower comment to heart."

Syaoran gave her a patronizing glance before pouring himself a cup of coffee and joined them at the table.

"So Tomoyo, what time are we leaving today?"

Tomoyo looked at the clock that was set up on the wall. After lunch I guess. My mom wanted us out of here by tonight cause of various reasons. Something about a conference and a meeting. I don't know the details but its work related and she needs this space."

Syaoran turned to Tomoyo deciding to take part in the small conversation. "What does your mom do?"

"She owns a chain of clothes stores around the country and is getting ready for the new fall fashions to come out." He nodded and went back to his coffee.

"So what do you plan on doing for the rest of the summer Syaoran? Is Eriol going to be showing you around or is he leaving you to fend for yourself?"

"Um well I was kind of thinking about getting a summer job here for the next few months I'm here. You know see what it's like"

Meilin's eyes widened. "You've never had a job! And you're how old?"

Syaoran flushed. "19, but I've always been busy with school and studying and a bunch of other stuff that's been going on that I've never really had time to get a job. But while I'm here I just thought it might be a good idea since Eriols probably going to be busy or with Tomoyo or something that it'd be a good way to spend my time."

Meilin nodded, "Well you should ask Sakura for job hunting tips. She's had so many jobs over the past few years I'm sure she'd be able to point you in the right direction."

Syaoran turned to Sakura and as if she could read his stare she immediately went to defend herself. "What? It's not like I got fired from all those jobs! Ok so I got fired from a few of them but most of them I had to quit cause the hours weren't flexible enough or the job just sucked, or the pay was bad (as specially once I learned about taxes) and some of them I just got laid off. So you see it's really not all may fault."

"Uh huh, sure" was his only response

"Fine you don't have to believe me but I don't have to help you get a job either." She returned the patronizing look he had given her earlier with a smile.

"Come on Sakura don't be mean. What happened to 'always-help-a-friend-out-Sakura'?"

Sakura gave Tomoyo a glare. "You're just saying that cause you want to spend more time with Eriol without feeling guilty of leaving Syaoran behind." Tomoyo blushed slightly under the knowing smiles of everyone else in the room and dismissed herself saying something about waking the boys before the next century came in.

Sakura rolled her eyes at how transparent her friend was, "Fine I'll help you. I can meet you tomorrow morning at Eriols house. The bus stop is closer to where we're going from his house."

"You already know where I can get a job?"

"No but I have a few ideas and to get to town center from around where we live you gotta take the bus."

Syaoran nodded, finishing his coffee. Surprisingly after all that had happened in the past few days one would think there would be a decrease in action around the small beach house. But he should have seen at least one thing coming. The house was filled with appalled and apologetic shouts as Yamazaki finally got up the courage to tell Chiharu about the beach incident and they all watched as Yamazaki was not only reduced to being Sakura's dish slave but an all around slave to Chiharu in his attempts at making her forgive him.

Then there was the incident after lunch as they were getting ready to leave when one of the girls that was dotting on Yamazaki saw him from the beach when he was out behind the house collecting pretty shells and the like to give to Chiharu. Needless to say Chiharu saw his and her anger was rekindled a-new and she forced Sakura to trade places with her in the car. Which was just as well because Yamazaki had to go to her house anyways to do dishes.

So in the end Sakura, Rika, Meilin and Yamazaki ended up in one car with Tomoyo, Eriol, Syaoran and Chiharu in the other. There was a little hassle as Sakura and Chiharu transferred their bags from one car to the other but other then that everything else went pretty smoothly.

For Syaoran the ride back was nearly as pleasant as the ride up. A majority of the time was spent listening to Chiharu mumble obscenities about Yamazaki before she finally tired herself out in the effort and fell asleep against the window. Tomoyo was driving again and this time chose to leave the radio on, even though it was quiet (out of respect to the sleeping Chiharu) he was great-full for the small distraction from the two love birds in the front. All in all, it was not an event full ride down and he idly found him self wondering what the others were doing in the other car.

For Sakura, the ride back was not nearly as un eventful as Syaorans. Quite the contrary. She and the other girls spent a majority of the time annoying a bummed out Yamazaki by singing all the classic long car ride songs and blasting the radio as high as it would go and singing terribly on purpose along with it. Yamazaki eventually lightened up and joined in the all time bashing favorite, 'Oops I did it again', earning him some attention as they now exited off the highway and onto main streets again. The occupants of the car blushed slightly and laughed as a group of people they had known from their old high school recognized them while walking down the street and laughed at their antics while they were stopped at a red light.

They dropped Rika and Meilin off not long after and Yamazaki pulled up into Sakura's driveway and couldn't help but notice Sakura's cheeky smile. "Come on lover boy, you've got dishes to do." Yamazaki groaned but got out of the car and followed her up the steps and into her house following her still into the kitchen where he almost thought about killing him self right there.

There, on the opposite side of the kitchen was the most disgusting pile of dirty dishes he had ever seen. "How-how long have those been sitting there?" He said, a quivering hand pointing at the over flowing sink and the dirty dishes that seemed to multiply onto the counter as he spoke.

Sakura stood thoughtful a moment. "Maybe about a week and a half, two weeks, plus this weekend." She smiled up at Yamazaki how gulped and began rolling up his sleeves face grim.

"Give me a sponge and dish soap. I'm going in" Sakura gave him what he asked and he obediently went about the task. Only to come running back to Sakura moments later asking for rubber gloves and a nose pin. Sakura laughed at the urgency in his voice as if there was some dish monster he had just discovered and was treating it like a threat to society.

"If you need anything else I'll be in the living room reading." Yamazaki nodded and put the gloves on and went back to the kitchen.

It was an hour later when Sakura got up from her la-z-boy chair and went to check up on Yamazaki who now lay slumped against the side kitchen counter sitting on the floor. Sakura's widened at the sight right above Yamazaki's head. "So I really do have a sink and counter and not a dish-eating vortex."

"That was too cruel. Remind me never. EVER. To make a deal with you ever again."

Sakura laughed and helped him up pouring him a glass of lemonade. "Thank you. I probably never would have done them."

"What were you going to do once you ran out of cups and dishes?"

"Buy plastic ones?" She said meekly

Yamazaki rolled his eyes. "you're pathetic." They both laughed and Yamazaki got up, saying that he should probably get back in case Chiharu called. She nodded and saw him out the door and gave him a few tips for getting back on Chiharu's good side. Advice which he took careful note of before getting into his car and driving away.

Sakura sighed as she turned back into her empty house. At least her dad was coming home this week for a while and Touya would be home by the end of the month from studying abroad. Then everything would be normal again. At least until the end of the summer. She shook her head, not even wanting to go down that road and went back to her book to escape.

At least in fairytales there's always a happily ever after.

Ok sorry if this chapter was shorter and less eventful then the others but I'm updating soon and I promise you'll all get your S+S action soon enough. Plus it seemed like a good place to stop.

I'm surprised at myself at how often I'm updating. Usually I go weeks at a time not updating but this story is eating my brain and just really wants to be written. So I guess it's all the better for you guys who are faithfully reading and hopefully enjoying this. I promise to update within the next few days.

A lot of you have asked about the arranged marriage thing and I'm determined not to give anything away and get ahead of myself. Cause I already know what's going to happen and some of you have expressed some of you suspicions and I'm not going to give any hints about this. . hehe nope nope you're just going to have to wait.

ahahahahahaha Till next time my good readers. Cursed-mind