Idiots
"Agents?" Syaoran asked.
"Yes. Part of Japan's Top Secret Agents Corporation." Kaori explained. That was where Sakura and Syaoran worked!
"What!" Sakura subconsciously continued to hold her gun at Jo. "So if you two are here, then why was Syaoran and I assigned to this mission."
"We aren't working on the same mission."
"I don't get it." Sakura lowered her gun and stepped back. Her eyes were wide and filled with confusion. Kaori and Sakura both took a seat. Jo and Syaoran walked up to be a part of the group and discussion.
"Jo and I reside here in Osaka." Kaori began. "So we've basically have been on a mission for a year."
"Kaori has worked undercover as a bartender for all of Sempo's clubs." Jo took part in the explanation.
"We've been working on the missing victims. Not just any victims. They were either filthy rich, or poor and desperate. The poorest looking people you'd see coming into a club."
Sakura remembered when she asked Kaori why she had worked there.
"I have to. I'm forced to do my job." Was what she said. Sakura didn't think it meant that she had to do it for a mission on the account that she was an agent.
Syaoran on the other hand cursed himself. He had been sober. How could he have missed it? Kaori jumping over the counter of the bar…why didn't she just walk around? And Jo. He did seem drunk, but he had enough self-control to go over and talk to Kaori. Tell Syaoran to stay put while he'd go talk to his girlfriend. Tell him that he had been the one that hurt Sakura.
"We've been coming closer and closer to catching Sempo and her plans…" Kaori went on. "A man named Hiiragazawa had also alerted us from JTSA headquarters in Tokyothat you guys were on a mission here. But up until last night, we have never met."
"So why didn't you guys tell us?" Syaoran asked. Kaori and Jo looked at each other. They gave a bit of a shrug.
"That's why we're here to tell you both, I guess."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute…" Sakura put out her hands to stop them from talking any further and shook her head vigorously. "So how did you know it was Syaoran and I? Did Eriol fax pictures of us or something?"
Kaori shook her head. "Nope. One, after how many times we were told how great you guys were. Two, we were also told that both of you are extremely good-looking…" Syaoran smirked with pride, but Sakura contracted in flattery. "And three, you both didn't bother to cover up your names. Actually, Sakura you told me your last name was Yakate, but hearing you say your first name made yourself quite obvious to any agent. So, all the clues fit together."
"Yeah," Jo interrupted. He tilted his chair back and lifted his feet onto the table. "Kinomoto was pretty cute when I bumped into her dancing."
"You did that on purpose!" Sakura's jaw dropped. And here she was feeling that he was such a creep when he smiled at her. Jo received three punishments from three other agents: A huge menacing glare from Syaoran and Sakura, and a smack across the face from Kaori.
"I'll kill you if you EVER succeed in cheating on me." Kaori made every word clear and concise. Jo laughed it off and hugged his woman.
"Kaori, I'd never leave you. You know that. I love you too much." Kaori sighed giving in.
Syaoran sat down and grumbled folding his arms. He looked at the side of his eye to Sakura. 'Even they're a damn couple…'
Sakura turned away from their new friends and looked at Syaoran. He turned away from her angrily. She was a little confused to see that he was angry. What was he so angry about? Then, she remembered how he had dropped his gun to his side when Kaori told him to earlier on.
"You idiot!" Sakura stood up, her hands flat on the table as she glared at Syaoran who gave her a queer look.
"Excuse me?" He questioned lifting an eyebrow. "You've called me that plenty of times before, but what has being silent got against you?"
"I can't believe you put away your weapon when Kaori told you to!" She ignored his previous comment. "What IF she was tricking you? You could've had us BOTH killed. It's your stupid carelessness."
It had suddenly become quiet with Kaori and Jo. They stared at Sakura and Syaoran bicker.
"SORRY If I thought that the safety of your partner is TOP PRIORITY, than being ready to kill someone." Syaoran stood up too. Kaori and Jo continued to stare blankly at them. It was sort of uncomfortable for them, but thoughts of Sakura and Syaoran sounding like a married couple amused them. They seemed so perfect for each other, it was easy to see. But why couldn't they see it themselves? Was it really that difficult?
"I could have handled it-"
"You could have handled it" Syaoran rolled his eyes as he repeated her words sarcastically. "How many times have I saved your sorry ass!"
"And I could have gotten out of those times JUST FINE!"
"Well then you do that, Sakura! I'm so sick of this bullshit." And with that Syaoran stormed out of the room.
Sakura yelled back at him mindlessly. "GOOD! Leave this on me! YOU-ARE-SUCH-A-GREAT-PARTNER, SYAORAN LI!"
The door slammed shut. Dead silence replaced the confused air.
"Sakura?" Kaori spoke up. It was a brave act, but someone had to do it.
"What?" Sakura snapped. Her arms were wrapped into a tight fold and there seemed to be small little droplets in her eyes.
"Oooohhhh Sakura…" Kaori hugged her like a mother with her child when they got hurt and started crying. Sakura cried into Kaori's shoulder. Kaori patted her back. "It's alright Sakura…"
"I-I-I don't even know why I'm crying!" Sakura stuttered while tears continued running down her face. She couldn't stop them.
"I'll go try to find Li and bring him back." Jo said and left the two girls to talk. Kaori rocked Sakura back and forth a bit and rubbed her back. She took in a deep sigh.
"You're crying because you're hurt and probably confused." Sakura seemed to cry some more. Soft whimpers slightly echoed in the room. "I understand that you were looking out for your job…but Sakura, he was looking out for you."
"I-I-I know-ow!" Sakura tried to say. "He's my- my par-partner. I-It's e-expe-ected."
"I think he had more on his mind than you just being his partner." Kaori didn't know how to say it to her. They hadn't really known each other, but already she could tell Syaoran's feelings for Sakura and even Sakura's reluctant feelings for him.
"Wha-what do y-you me-ean?" The crying girl finally asked. Kaori paused to think of the words to say before answering.
"Sakura?" Kaori began rather unsure if she should be asking this, but it was probably the right thing to do. "Do you love him?"
'Do I love him? Do…I…love…him?' Kept running through Sakura's head as she cried. "I-I don't know…" She finally said. "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know…"
Her cries began to calm down, but her mind was racing. Racing to find the answers that she's been seeking most of her life.
"What do you see Li as?" Kaori tried to help her through this. If Syaoran couldn't, then at the moment next in line was Kaori.
"H-he's a nice guy." Sakura started to think. "A-and I don't really know…I haven't paid much thought to th-that. But he could be so serious, and heh…stupid sometimes. Syaoran can be so stubborn." She sniffled and wiped away the tears, still in Kaori's arms. "But…even if I do love him…I can't tell him."
"Why!" Kaori blurted out suddenly. It would have been better to take it nice and slow, but this piece of information threw her off.
"Be-because…" Sakura retracted from Kaori's long hug and looked at her as she wiped away the tears that still continued to fall. "…we can't be together."
"I don't understand." Kaori shook her head in confusion. "Why can't you two be together?"
Sakura took in a deep breath to stop her franticness.
"We're the top agents in JTSA." Sakura started. Kaori nodded. Of course she knew. Every agent that was in JTSA knew about Sakura Kinomoto and Syaoran Li along with their reputation. It would have taken any average agent a month or more to infiltrate Tempta Co. and get those files.
"Well, with a reputation like that we've worked hard for…we can't exactly put it away and start a normal relationship." She continued. "People know us and will plan on revenge. Our lives are in far more risk than to any other agent, because we are the top. I would hate to see Syaoran in danger…"
"And he hated seeing you in danger." Kaori cut her off. Sakura looked up to see her smiling. "Just like I hated to see Jo in danger."
Sakura gave her a questioning look which made Kaori laugh. "When you didn't pull your gun away from Jo you were making me nervous. I had to pull my gun out on you. I couldn't bear to see him at that sort of risk. It didn't really hit me that Syaoran didn't want you to be hurt, so I guess he put his gun down. But he still held on to it just in case, which was fairly responsible…Do you see what I mean, Sakura?"
Sakura nodded her head like a child.
"When I first met Jo he was very quiet." Kaori thought back to her dating days. "He wasn't all that quiet as I thought though. He kept annoying me with stupid things like 'What's it like being beautiful, Katsuna?' or 'There's this awesome restaurant a few blocks away, want me to show you and you show me what's under that shirt?'. It did make me laugh after and that last one got him a slap across the face. I thought he was an idiot to still continue to come after me like that. But I gave him a chance." She smiled mindlessly and Sakura couldn't help but laugh. "And wow did he impress me. I thought he would have used corny pick up lines all the way through our first date. But he didn't. He kept things very simple, asking me what I liked and he'd do it for me."
Sakura let out a small awe.
"And that got him to our next date. Then we just continued to go out up until now."
Sakura smiled and complimented how they seemed to have a wonderful relationship.
"But Sakura…being an agent, shouldn't stop you from loving Li."
"I know." Sakura responded. "I'll think about it more…maybe I will tell him."
Kaori smiled and laid her hand on her shoulder. "Okay," She said. "And when you do…he'll be the happiest man in the world, because he loves you."
Tears started to run down Sakura's face faster, but her soft lips turned into a smile and Kaori embraced her again like a loving friend.
"Thank you, Kaori." Sakura hugged her new friend back.
The door opened and interrupted Sakura and Kaori's woman talking moment. It was Jo…without Syaoran.
"I can't find him." Jo huffed and puffed. "I looked around the lobby and anywhere else in the hotel. I even went outside."
Sakura stood up and rushed out. She didn't wait for Jo or Kaori to come with her, in fact, she was too fast for them to catch up. She was already down the elevator and looking around in the lobby anxiously. She checked in the casino, pool and billiard area. No Syaoran.
She even went outside into the orange painted sky. Every figure she saw around the building wasn't Syaoran. She went to check if the Porsche was still parked in the underground parking lot. The Porsche was still with absolutely no one in it. Nothing was even touched. Surprisingly.
Sakura trudged back to the hotel thinking of every place that she didn't look, which was no where. She walked out of the elevator onto her floor and trekked along to her hotel, only to hope that Syaoran would be there…waiting for her.
She opened the unlocked room. She looked up from her feet and saw Jo and Kaori, still sitting at the small table near the large window.
"He didn't come back." Jo said before Sakura could speak. After that, she couldn't seem to find her voice, all that guilt panged in her heart. She really needed to learn to stop herself from being aggressive. She had taught herself to be more aggressive, and now she had to teach herself to control it.
She collapsed to the floor, right there in front of them. Jo and Kaori gasped and called out her name and asked if she was okay as they ran to her. Jo helped her up to her feet.
"It's all my fault." She cried. "It's all my fault I was being stupid." She rubbed her eyes roughly to stop more tears from falling, but it only made it worst.
"I am so stupid! And he's right! I don't blame him for not being able to take that bullshit. He shouldn't have to…"
And as though on cue, the hotel door slammed shut…again. Everyone turned around to see…dun dunna naaaannnn!
"SYAORAN!" Sakura screamed and threw herself at him with a big hug. His hands threw up in the air and he looked down at her burying her face into his chest as he let out a small 'woah!'.
"Where were you!" Sakura cried. "We were looking everywhere for you! Where did you go? And why did you leave!"
"I was only gone for fifteen minutes." Syaoran rested his hands around her. "I didn't think you would be that worried about me after calling me an idiot."
"Iwuvyoyoiet." Sakura mumbled into his chest. It was cold and warm at the same time, if that's even possible, but that's what she felt.
"What?" Syaoran asked confused.
"I sad iwuvyo yoiet." Sakura mumbled her words which were really: I love you, you idiot.
"Sakura, I can't understand what you're saying." Syaoran shook his head confused. Sakura looked up with him, her tears still lingering around her determined eyes.
"I said you are still an idiot." She lied. If he didn't get it the first few times, then then wasn't the right time to tell him.
Syaoran chuckled and brought his hand up to her cheek. His thumb brushed away the tears that stained them.
"I know." He said. "I know I'm an idiot."
Without knowing it, they continued to hold each other, looking into each other's eyes.
When a man was in love. He certainly seemed like an idiot.
Eekss! I haven't squealed over my own story in a long time... Hehe well while I'm writing it. Anyhow, once my scanner is working i'll bring up my little drawing of KYS. Anyhow, YAY! Another chapter with a comical one word title...ermmm..okay then...hope that those of you who have March Break have a good one. Mine isn't exactly off to a great start...but it will get better in the end...just like Sakura and Syaoran. Thanks for all the support!
Disclaimer: Of course CCS does not belong to me. It's own by the one and only CLAMP! Whoot!
