It was a new day in the Kinomoto household as its occupants were rudely awoken by the shrill ring of a telephone. After several groans and shouts of "Can someone get that!" Fujitaka made his way down the stares to the telephone.
"Hello?" His voice deep and slightly slurred from fatigue, but his visage immediately brightened as he heard the responding voice. "Youji! How are you?" there was a pause on the other end as the caller spoke. "Your in town? Then why don't you come around and join us for dinner this evening. I bet it's been a while since you had a good home cooked meal" There was a laugh on the other end and a quick agreement that the two would meet later that evening. Fujitaka hung up the phone and went into the kitchen to start preparing a cup of coffee. He was awake now; he might as well get some work done.
Sakura lay on her back, her eyes closed as she faced the ceiling. She could hear her neighbor mowing their lawn and Touya watching something downstairs on the television. She slowly opened one eye taking a quick glance at her clock before shutting it again. She groaned and turned over burying her face into her pillow when the loud voice of her brother came through her door.
"Come on Sakura! I can only ignore your terrible sleeping habits for so long! Get up!" He opened the door and stood above her. He turned her over roughly but she still refused to open her eyes. "Come on open your eyes and get up."
"I can't"
"Can't get up! God you're so lazy!"
"NO! My eyes don't open! I'm blind and its all your fault." She pouted and then buried her face in her pillows again; a muffled "and besides its Saturday" escaping the pillows as Touya scowled.
"Sakura you're being stupid. Its already noon." He let out a frustrated sigh and left the room giving up.
Sakura lay motionless for another minute before her brothers' words registered and she sat up in her bed eyes wide open in shock before they were promptly shut with a loud "Oh God why does the sun have to be so bright!" She fumbled around her room eyes only half open trying to find some clean clothes for a shower and a clean towel. A smile creeping to her lips as she realized what day it was. Ignoring the 'silly' question that silently registered in the back of her head 'Why am I so excited?'
A half hour later she came bounding happily downstairs and sat at the table where her brother was eating lunch. He gave her a mocking smirk, "So how are your eyes? How many fingers am I holding up?"
Her only response to this was a glare and her sticking up her middle finger saying "How many fingers?" Touya just kept smirking and continued with his lunch.
Sakura went to the freezer pulling out a package of frozen waffles and put them in the toaster when her dad walked in and saw Sakura smiling lightly to herself as she went about her day.
"Is there a reason for your smile Sakura? Your not usually this chipper when you first wake up."
"I'm just happy. I might be going out with a friend later. Depends if I get the inspiration to or not." She giggled lightly at this, her brother and dad exchanging confused looks. Her father shrugged and decided to play along.
"So where might you guys be going?"
"I might go to the movies and he might be there. It all depends on if we suddenly get the inspiration to go or not."
Fujitaka decided to ignore how strange that sounded and concentrated on the part that really concerned him. "He?"
"Don't worry. He's Eriol's cousin and I'm just showing him around and stuff while he's here. It's no big deal. We're just friends."
Fujitaka gave her a half smile and a nod. "I trust you."
Touya just laughed. "How could you not after she broke that guys nose that one time."
Sakura rolled her eyes. "Why does that keep being brought up recently? It makes me sound so…. violent."
"You're not?"
"Shut up Touya!"
Fujitaka chuckled gaining his two children's attention. "No matter how old you get you still act like you're in elementary school again."
Sakura rolled her eyes grabbing her toasted waffles and went to the living room to read some of her book, wondering if she would get a sudden burst of inspiration as she tried to ignore the undecided part of her conscience that was still questioning her motives for going.
Syaoran walked along the main street in town taking an occasional look down at the napkin Eriol had written the directions to the theatre on for him. If the map was right and he was following it correctly, then it should be…right in front of him. He looked up and saw the large theatre before him.
"Wow, Eriol actually got one right." He walked in and made his way towards the snack bar to wait in spot where he would be visible from the doorway, be out of the way of traffic and make it look like he wasn't really waiting for someone or being stood up. Needless to say, this was a little harder then anticipated.
He glanced down at his watch. It was 2:15. She was probably on the way, if she was even coming. He was a bit worried he had been to forward with her the way he'd asked her to meet him. It really did sound like a date now that he thought about it. He sighed, she probably wasn't coming, she couldn't get involved with anyone and he wasn't really supposed to either according to his mother who said he was only supposed to be with one person an not many (which led him to question how he was supposed to find the one but she only ignored that comment of his and walked away). But it wasn't like he listened to her anyway, but he couldn't help but feel he was a fool for trying with Sakura.
All thoughts however were turned away when he saw her walk through the door in a pale blue, almost white, knee length sundress a glossy pink ribbon was sewn under her breasts accenting her features. She saw him and smiled waving as she made her way over to him. He couldn't think properly for a few seconds, thoughts like, 'how does she pull off looking so casual and still look hot?' running through his head before he regained control of himself and walked over meeting her half way.
"Hey. So how close was the hypothetical scenario to what really happened this morning?"
"Not very close at all. I woke up at noon and ate at one, not two." She smiled as she heard his light chuckle. "I think the only thing that you got right was that I came."
"And your smile. I got that right too."
She laughed trying to fight off a blush "right, ok, so what movie we seeing?"
"I don't really care. What do you want to see?"
They made their way over to the ticket booth and ended up getting two tickets to Charley and the Chocolate factory. They walked to the ticket man who ripped their tickets and directed them down a long hall that led to the movie viewing rooms where they sat in theatre 6.
They sat in the dark room that was only half filled, mostly with younger children and their parents or teenagers seeing the movie with their friends. Syaoran glanced over at Sakura, who was happily munching on the large bag of popcorn, a quarter of it almost gone even before the movie started. "You know, if you keep eating at that rate you wont make it past the previews."
"Yes I will. You'll see, I'll even have left over after." She stuck her tongue out at him shoving another handful in her mouth.
"How lady like"
"Wike I willy care" Syaoran smirked at her trying to talk through a full mouth and took a few pieces of popcorn and putting them into his mouth, the perfect example of etiquette, even when eating finger food. Sakura rolled her eyes and grabbed a handful of popcorn and shoved it into his partly open mouth, he was in the middle of putting in a few more kernels when Sakuras hand collided with his mouth shoving the large amount of popcorn into his mouth and around his face.
"What ra crap!" he was still trying to chew the enormous amount and swallow it as Sakura laughed at his greasy face and astonished expression.
Both were promptly shut up a few minutes later as several "SSSSHHHHH"'s were given to them as the movie started, ending their little popcorn fight. Their popcorn never made it past the previews and had ended up mostly on the floor.
They walked out of the movie a few hours later with the rest of the crowd. Syaoran waited for Sakura out side the door when she had to go back in to get their empty popcorn bag, insisting they couldn't just leave their trash there, they had already made enough of a mess. Syaoran's only reply being 'whatever' she went back in and retrieved the empty bag and threw it out. By now the rest of the theatre crowd had dissipated and the two walked down the long hall of theatres towards the exit.
"Hey look they're showing the fantastic four in that one!"
"We could see that next"
"I don't think I have enough money to buy another ticket."
"Wanna sneak a peek?"
Sakura looked at him incredulously "But, isn't that… well, bad?"
"It'll just be a peek, besides its more then half over anyway."
Sakura thought about it, looking hesitant. "Only a little peek, to see if its worth seeing and then we're gone."
It turned out to be only a half hour into the movie when they walked in and took seats near the back. They weren't even sitting down for five minutes when Sakura started shifting in her seat.
"Syaoran, we said only a peek. We should go."
"Shh, its getting good."
"But Syaoran….what if we get caught?"
Syaoran looked at her with a warm smile. "Don't worry about it, just enjoy the movie. IF we get caught I'll take all the blame and leave you innocent alright?" He saw here eyes were still hesitant and took her hand in his. "Come on, just a few more minutes, relax, if you don't like the movie we'll leave." She nodded and turned back to the movie trying to ignore the tingling in her hand that Syaoran still held; she smiled and decided to stay, it really did seem interesting.
So what was intended to be only a peek turned into them watching the whole rest of the movie both enjoying it thoroughly.
They walked out behind the rest of the crowd Sakura beaming. "That was fun! That movie was so good. I'm glad you didn't listen to me when I said we should leave."
Syaoran grinned. "You've never been movie hopping before?"
Sakura shook her head in a negative. "No, unlike some people, I'm honest." She emphasized the last word and Syaoran rolled his eyes.
"Not anymore you're not."
Sakura glared before smirking slightly. "Might as well keep going on to the train wreck right?"
"What?"
"Wanna go see War of the Worlds?"
Syaoran laughed and they 'went to the bathroom' to get rid of the crowd and meet each other in the theatre where they watched the last hour of the film.
By the time they walked out of the movie theatre completely it was already getting dark out. Sakura laughed lightly as they walked out, her walking backwards in front of Syaoran telling him about her favorite parts of each movie they saw, re-telling the funny parts, doing small graceful twirls as she continued backwards.
Syaoran smiled at her child like behavior. "I'm glad you had fun."
Sakura laughed. "Yeah, it was kind of a rush sneaking into those movies but I feel sort of guilty. I don't think I'll be doing it again but it was fun. I'm glad I came today."
"Me too. For a while I wasn't sure you were going to come or not."
"Same, But how could I turn down your offer to hang when you went through such an elaborate story to try to convince me."
They both laughed. "I don't think I've ever been asked out like that." She blushed hearing her words, and hurried to correct herself. "I mean you know even though it was just us hanging and not like a date or anything but," 'I kind of wish it were..'
Syaoran smiled understanding. He already knew where she was coming from with this and he couldn't help but feel his mood dampened a little by it but ignored it. "Yeah I know."
Sakura nodded and turned to walk beside him the silence settling over them. They walked along the streets watching people slowly retreat back to their houses. Sakura skipped happily taking in the serenity around her still doing the occasional twirl.
"You're a good dancer." Syaoran said off handidly watching her.
Sakura only laughed. "Well I hope so, it's what I hope to do for the rest of my life."
Syaoran raised a bow interested. "Really? What else do you want to do?"
"Not telling. That goes along with my dream that you'll only laugh at."
Syaoran smiled. "I promise I won't laugh. And you can't hold the 'you're mean' excuse against me anymore."
"Can't I? Fine then. But I can still say your immoral."
Syaoran arched a brow, "how'd you figure that?"
"You sneak into movies without paying? How could I trust a person not to laugh when they do that?"
Syaoran only smirked. "You did it too." Sakura only stuck out her tongue at him settled into a walk tiring from her light skip.
"Why do you want to know so bad?"
"I don't know. I guess I wouldn't normally. It's probably just because you wont tell me that I want to know. And I could always use a good laugh."
"HA! See you would laugh!"
This Syaoran laughed at and soon so did Sakura.
They were only a few blocks from Sakuras house before she suddenly grabbed his left hand and brought it to her face looking at the watch that was fastened around his wrist. "Oh CRAP! I have to get home. I didn't think it was so late." She hugged Syaoran quickly thanking him for the fun day and ran off down the street towards her house. Her flip-flops making their typical clopping sound as she dashed away.
Syaoran stared after her running form, a slight blush on his cheeks. He could still feel the warmth on his hand, his heart beating a little faster then was really necessary. He groaned inwardly and physically smacked his head with the palm of his hand. "SHIT! Goddamnit! Why her!"
Sakura rushed home in the growing dark and flew into her house and into the kitchen where she could hear talking. She entered the room to find her dad talking with his old friend and colleague Youji.
He heared her enter and turned his head towards her, taking in her slightly flushed face and labored breathing. "You ran all the way home just to see me? Why I'm honored Sakura-chan"
Sakura smiled. "Hey Uncle Youji. What are you doing here?"
"What an old family friend can't just stop by and say hi?"
"An old family friend can but you're always up to something."
Youji laughed and opened his arms wide, which Sakura went to, accepting the hug from him. "Just wanted to say hello to my soon to be daughter in law."
Oh I'm an evil evil person aren't I? First I make the chapter shorter then usual and then I leave you with a nice cliffhanger. Haha
Sorry for the late update. I just got photoshop and I've been kind of distracted.
Why is she a dancer? I have no idea where that came from….I guess I'll just have to work with that now wont I….shrugs My brain is slowly turning to mush…I really need to go outside…..
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