An Agent's Job
"We're undercover!" Sakura glared at her partner as she threw off her coat. Syaoran closed the hotel room door and walked in as though he had come home from a long day's work. He took off his coat and placed it on the back of a chair. Sakura lectured him and wove her hands in the air wildly. Syaoran was tired and tried not to argue as he took off his tie. But of course, he didn't last long.
"Stupid! Stupid! STUPID!" Sakura yelled. "I can't believe you! What do you think your doing? We have a job here!"
He ruffed his hair a little then started to unbutton the first few top buttons of his shirt.
"Couldn't think to be careful…nooooo! You just had to flirt! Just had to swoon the ladies!"
He pulled out his shirt tails from inside his pants after he placed the file they nicked on the night table.
"What! Just because we got one file tonight means that you could lay off a bit? Geez! Why didn't you help me like a responsible Partner should! YOU ARE SUCH AN IDIOT! Why are you even an agent?"
Syaoran turned to stare at her. His eyes so concentrated on hers that she stopped talking for that moment.
"I was doing my job."
"You call flirting your job? Our job is risk-taking! We can't afford to come close to a relationship with anyone! You know that! –"
"She was one of the heads, Sakura!"
There was dead silence as they stood there staring at each other. Syaoran's stare dug deep into Sakura's shocked eyes and heart as she sank in guilt. She was slowly losing breath and her heart started to hurt.
"One of the heads? She was one of the heads?" Sakura croaked.
"Yeah. The one named Sempo Aki."
Sakura gulped hard as she took a step toward Syaoran. Never had she been so wrong.
"So you were trying to get close to her for the file?"
"Duh."
"I-I'm sorry, I didn't know-"
"I know you didn't. It's the whole part of being a secret agent."
Sakura felt so awful. She had walked to him so slowly that now she was only under a meter away from him She wanted so much just to read out and hug him. Tell him more than a couple hundred times that she was sorry and how she was the stupid one. But she couldn't, so she didn't. She even just said it herself, 'We can't afford to come close to a relationship with anyone'. That had taken part of the reason she burst into tears and crumbled to the ground on her knees in front of Syaoran. No later, she felt herself being brought up and held gently.
Syaoran hugged her as she cried softly into his shirt.
"It's okay." He said once then stayed quiet after. He didn't quite understand why she was crying entirely. He had expected her to go to bed angry and silent. But no, only the snuffled cries of what was sure to be many 'sorries'.
I am soooooooooo sorry this chapter is soooo short. but I'll update as soon as I can...even though exams are coming up in a few days. Trust me. i do not want to study and I'd rather do this :D. My mom is kicking me off the computer anyway. So probably tomorrow I'll have another chapter done. Thanks for Reviewing and Reading.
