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Chapter 9: Savoring the Limited Moments

'Last week.

It was full of shit!

Just shit!

That Yukito guy really had Sakura… And it wasn't right, ya know! It wasn't just any other Sakura… it was MY Sakura!

Curse those movies he had… Curse him… But what else can I do?

Darn it.'

Syaoran kept on grunting and scowling as things like these kept on swimming in his head. He can handle it… well not really. It was torture… well not that much. He knows things could get worse.

His right elbow was rested on his table and his chin was resting on his right palm. It was another boring remedial in the sunny afternoon about 4:40pm. He was in a classroom at the first floor. He was sitting beside the window. He looked to the left and a new scene was revealed in his eyes. He sees the garden outside and nothing could ever make it more beautiful than his pretty Sakura waiting for him outside.

He smiled.

'It's awfully nice of her to wait for me. She could just go home right away. Haah… Why do I have to take these remedial classes again? …I dunno. I really wasn't paying that much attention when the teacher announced that our class would have remedial classes today. And another part is, Sakura have to wait for me. But… I think it's okay… She's pretty nice, don't you think?' He smiled again as Sakura waved at him and he happily waved back. His eyes got dreamy while his pretty angel is frolicking outside.

While he savors the scenery in his eyes, the villain comes into view- Yukito. 'WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING HERE?'

……………………………………………………

'What the hell is he doing here?'

"Hi Sakura!" he greeted her.

'What the hell is he doing here?' she repeated in her head. "H-hey Yukito!" She had stopped wandering around the Cherry Blossom trees.

"I just thought of picking you up…" he replied then flashed one of his warm smiles.

Those smiles were the ones that make Sakura feel fuzzy when she had a crush on him before. 'But that don't work on me anymore.' "Really? How'd you know I was here?"

He dived his hands in his pockets and said, "I happen to pass by Chiharu at the main gate. I asked her. Then she told me you were here waiting for your bodyguard."

"Syaoran." Sakura had made a negative angle with her eyebrows.

"Right…" he smirked. "C'mon! Let's go home! Your Dad just cooked something for us!"

"Really?" she exclaimed as she imagined the sweet aroma of the foods made by her Dad. Her eyes twinkled. "What did Dad make?"

After that, she had remembered why she was there in the school's garden- because she had to peak on someone. He looked at her wish-he-was-mine guy.

She smiled at Syaoran who was looking at her in a negative stare.

She grinned. He raised his eyebrow.

She waved. He jerked his head towards the teacher removing his gaze at her.

She sweat dropped. "I think I'll just stay here…" she told Yukito. "You go ahead. Tell Dad Syaoran and I will be home late."

Negatives plastered in his gentle face, "Why? You're not obliged to wait for him, are you?"

"Well…" she hid her hands behind her back. She looked down and swayed a little making imaginary circles with her right foot, "I just prefer to stay here."

"Oh…" Yukito lightened up. "Repaying all the things he did to you, huh? I understand." He smiled and said, "Oh Sakura… You're really a sweet girl."

'NO! That's not it! Yes, I know I am sweet. Hihihi! But I'm staying here because I like to wait for my beloved!' "Y-yeah… M-maybe…"

After all their talking, Yukito had left. Syaoran saw him leave and also noticed that she had stayed. He blushed. 'Nice…' he thought.

………………………………………………… Syaoran's room

He lies on his bed while thinking, 'She had waited for me.

That's nice.

But I can't help my self from thinking that . . .

Things could really get worse.'

It wasn't very easy to clear his mind… But soon enough, he did, and finally drifted off to sleep.

……………………………………………… After for a couple of days

"HaaaAaAaAAah!" a long sigh from Sakura came, but no one seemed to mind it for everybody feels liking sighing or, more likely, yawning in the classroom. 'Haah! History…!' she thought. She put down her pencil, and also her head, on the desk. 'Why do we ever have to take up this? They don't exist anymore… Why bother?' she kept on wondering. 'If there's anything to be worrying about… It's your most important thing- your number one…'

"Haah…" she sighed again. 'Syaoran.'

She lifted her head then rested her elbow on the desk then placed her chin on her palm, 'This class never fails to bore me.' Her eyelids are slightly closed, ever humdrum.

'DUG!' a noise was heard from her desk. Then a "Kinomoto?" from the teacher was followed. … Her head just lied there on the desk, unmoving.

"Sensei," Rika's voice was heard from the classroom, "Sakura looks terrible."

At that, the teacher's face got white and his eyes widened. "I-Is s-she that Kinomoto? That Sakura Kinomoto?" The teacher nervously asked the class.

"Yes, she is!" Rika responded.

"Oh dear!" The teacher exclaimed in nervousness, "I've heard something about Kinomoto in the faculty. … She has a companion in the higher level, right?"

Half of the class nodded in response.

His eyes are still wide, "Oh dear! Oh my! Call her bodyguard! Now! Please! Someone!"

Immediately, a girl with braided pigtails stood from her seat then quickly hurried off to Sakura's seat. Chiharu dived her hands in Sakura's bag. While she kept on looking for her cellular phone, the teacher kept on stating random phrases like, "It's just my first time to enter this class!" "I really don't have any news about these aspects in the faculty!" "I don't know what to do, I'm just new here!" "I've never heard of such things before!"

"HERE IT IS!" Chiharu bellowed in the classroom.

The teacher's wide eyes got a little relieved after he heard Chiharu. "Please! Do something! Call!"

"Yeeeeess…!" she teased the teacher for saying that real slow.

………………………………………………… After for a few minutes

THE DOOR SLAMMED OPEN. A chestnut colored haired guy appeared by the class door and is taking simultaneous deep breaths. He looked like he was running all the way to Sakura's classroom.

"Please hurry!" The teacher blurted.

He gave him a quick nod and he started walking towards her seat.

While he walks in the scene, a few side whispering and low squealing was heard. Squeals are more likely from female students.

'What happened to her now?' he lazily asked him self as he carries her bridal style. As soon as he managed his balance, he took a step then continued walking. "Please excuse us." He told the teacher who is half worried.

"Yes yes, please." He replied.

Then with another half minute, Syaoran and Sakura were out of the classroom.

…………………………………………………

'Haah… Whatever happened to her now?' He thought as he normally walks in the corridor carrying her.

"Hihihihi!"

He raised his eyebrow. 'What the?'

"It was great!" she exclaimed as she moves her head closely to his chest.

"Haah… You've done it again…" he sighed to her as he continuously walks.

"I'm clever, am I not? ..AAAAAH!" she screamed when he suddenly dropped her off. "Owww…" she moaned as she rubs her ass. "WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?" she yelled.

He ignored her then continued walking.

She pulled up to her feet then ran off to him. "Meanie…" she muttered as she caught up with his pace. He shook his head in disbelief, true, he didn't find Sakura's fake collapse funny.

"Well… Aren't you gonna say something?" she desperately asked looking up to him as they continued walking in the corridor.

He kept silent like there was no one beside him walking. Then finally, "… Spoiled kid."

Her eyes suddenly widened with his statement. She looked down to her feet and watched its continuous steps while she plays with her fingers. She was shocked with his sudden words, after all- "Well… Maybe I am a bit spoiled-"

"A lot!" he butt in.

"Ok… ok… A LOT! Well… Maybe what you said is true…" she stopped, her eyes still fixed on the ground, "I did it just to see you…"

Amber eyes widened, his expression came to be; from a nonchalant look, a readable look in his face was visible. "…Sorry." He whispered. He was a bit mean to her a while ago, he just felt like apologizing; but that doesn't mean that he agrees with her careless actions; but still, it was for him; just to see him. He somehow felt grateful.

"Huh? What did you just say?" she asked when she looked up to him.

He sweat dropped and felt a warm blush appeared in his face, "N-nothing."

"Huh?" she was confused, "I knew I heard I something. What? You were sorry?" a slight smile drew in her lips.

"S-sorry?" He stuttered, "O-of course not! W-why would I be sorry?" he added, his eyes fixed straight at the corridor.

"Oh…" the smile disappeared. She looked at the corridor too; where she was going "It was just my imagination, I guess. Hehe?"

He gulped. He somehow felt guilty. "Well… Princess spoiled brat, where do you wanna go now?" he asked trying to cheer her up.

"Well…" her sad face lightened up a bit, "Where else?"

"…Right!" he responded.

………………………………………………… At the Cherry Blossom tree

"Hihihi!" she giggled as she stretches out her hands in the air and laid her back at the bottom part of the tree trunk.

He was sitting beside her then gazed to her face, he smirked. "I knew it! Why'd you do it, Sakura?"

"Well?" she began as she tilts her head slightly to the left making a cute expression; "I just missed you, I guess!" then flashed a big grin at his face.

He blushed redder than red. For a few seconds, he shrugged it off then the red mark disappeared, "Spoiled bratty girl…"

Her eyes widened with shock, and then she quickly leaned to him; her palms on the grass; her face close to his, glaring meanly at him.

'Well… There's nothing else to look at!' He stared into her beautiful emerald eyes. Those eyes were angry with him, but still, it told her soul; and indeed, it did hypnotize him making him blush all over again. "Stop doing that!"

"What?" she got bewildered then backed off. "Huh?"

"Nothing… Nothing…" he muttered as he shakes his head.

"Syaoran, you're weird!" she commented raising her eyebrow.

His blush lessened a lot, but a bit was still visible, "Who says you're not?"

A vain popped in her head, "Why you!" then started choking him again.

Still, her chokes didn't affect him. He just laughed all the way until she got tired.

…………………………………………………… After a week, in a hall room, in a formal ball

'Why am I in here again?' "Dad!" she called up to her father, Fujitaka.

"Yes Sakura?" he replied.

"We've been here for a couple of hours now, the awarding is finished, the dinner is done, when do we get home?" she whined.

"In a while dear." He responded nonchalantly.

"But that's what you told me a while ago!" she exclaimed.

His glasses flashed, "That's because you ask every while."

"No, I don't!" she snapped then turned to the man beside her, "Do I?"

He made a very handsome smirk, "Yeah you do!" She frowned and pulled her tongue out to him.

He chuckled then took a sip of wine. She watched him drinking wine then felt a sudden envy. She gaped to her glass and found it empty. She looked at him.

"HEY!" he snapped when she tried to grab the glass from him. "If you don't mind."

She ignored what he said, "Gimme that!"

"No way… HEY!" he repeated when she tried another attempt but to no avail. "For starters, this isn't for kids."

"He's right." Fujitaka butt in. It is totally fine to him if Syaoran speaks casually to her.

"But I want it! Gimme that!" she whined.

"No!"

……………………………………………… After for a couple of minutes

"Dad!" she has a finalized tone. Her father faced her, "I wanna go home!"

He felt her daughter's tantrum then said, "Ok Sakura."

She blinked. 'Wow!' "Yey! Syaoran and I will be off now."

"Sure..! I'll just tell Yukito you left." He mentioned. Touya and Yukito are at the buffet table; taking another plate of food.

'Oh that's right… Yukito…' she thought and said, "Oh ok Dad, tell him." He nodded then Sakura suddenly spoke up, "U-umm… Dad.."

He faced his daughter politely, "Hmm?"

"U-umm… A-am I r-really gonna b-be engaged t-to Yukito?" she asked.

She was earnest with her question. She watched her dad desperately waiting for the answer. It's a moment of suspense for her; as if her heart had skipped. … Only she didn't know that a little wolf was also waiting for the answer. … Until finally, the answer they were anxious of arrived.

"Yes."

Her jaw dropped; as if her heart suddenly hesitated to pump. He somehow felt the same way. … She kept quiet until she couldn't take the awe moment anymore. "BUT DAD!"

Her dad gave her a nod in response motioning her to continue.

Feeling of all hope is lost, "Nothing." She responded. She kept her frown as she began by taking a step.

"Sakura." Her dad suddenly spoke up. She kept silent as she turns her head to face her dad. "There's still a chance to fix this until the engagement party."

Her frown turned into a little genuine smile; as if her heart willed to pump again, she nodded. He slightly felt the heavy load lighten up. After that, they left.

Pretty soon, the two arrived outside. She crossed her arms then tapped her foot on the ground. 'Tik tik tik tik' her high heels made that sound. "Well?"

His eyebrow raised in confusion. "Well what?"

"WELL?" she deepened her tone, "Aren't you gonna get the car?"

"Oh!" he uttered then his eyebrow returned to its proper place, "We aren't gonna be riding a car."

Her eyes widened, "WHAT?"

"Your dad didn't give me any key, what am I supposed to do?"

"You mean… We're supposed to…"

"Yeah…" he smirked, "We're gonna walk."

She felt as if her heart hesitated to pump again, "Noooooooo!"

………………………………………………… After a couple of minutes

The dark night engulfed the sky only allowing tiny dots of light to appear. The streets are still willable with the help of the lampposts. The two have been walking for a couple of minutes now. 'Tik tik tik tik' were the sounds heard from her shoes.

"Wait." She muttered, "Let's stop for a while."

A/N: I just copied this idea; I know some of you may be familiarized with the upcoming scene. (winks)

He stopped then faced her; his right side. He watched her bend down and remove her shoes. "Aww…" she moaned, "These heels are killing me."

He smirked, "Why'd you wear them?"

"Because! Because because it's a formal ball!" she said with a hello-it's-the-most-common-thing-in-the-world tone.

He rolled his eyes, "Spoiled bratty girl…"

She gaped up to him, "…what whAT WHAT!" He didn't look at her. She took his eye contact then aimed her shoe at his face, "You, my bodyguard, WILL make me feel comfortable!"

His eyebrows made a negative peculiar angle, 'This ain't gonna be pretty, I'm sure.' "What?"

"…Trade shoes with me!"

His eyes widened, "WHAT THE HELL? NO WAY!"

"C'mon Syao… these shoes are killing me… My feet are so sore already…"

"No way! I WILL NOT wear those high heels!"

………………………………………………

"I can't believe I'm wearing your stinking high heels!" Syaoran bellowed with full of horror in his face. She laughed at him while skipping up and down with his very comfortable high-heel free shoes. "I swear you'll pay for this once we get home!"

She giggled and said, "Whatever Syaoran!"

'Whatever huh?' An evil smirk appeared in his amber-eyed handsome face,

"You're dead."

END

Author's Notes

Finally! A not-that-short chapter! Hahaha!

Please everyone, no flames, ok? Thank you.

Reviews please.

Tammi