Revenge is sweet, love is sweeter
By Zilver Wings
Chapter Six
Closer
A/N: Thank you for your reviews everyone… but I just wish there were more.. sigh. Well, please continue reading.
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Summary: She was once the innocent girl, kind and trusting . Yet, after the incident with her classmate, Li Xiao Lang, she changed. And now, seeing him again, she seeks revenge.
Soon after their visit, Syaoran had recovered, and could go to school.
His having lunch with the girls, and walking Sakura home had become a routine. Although Sakura considered this as a living nightmare, she could not do anything about it.
'Curses! Why can't he just leave me alone? It's so annoying that he keeps on sticking around me. Oh, Li Xiao Lang, how I wish I could have thought of a plan to make you pay dearly.'
After school, Sakura and Syaoran were walking back home together again. Unknown by her, her thoughts appeared on her expression, and her fists were curled into tight balls.
"Daijoubu?" Not missing this act, Syaoran asked her, concerned.
Sakura's thoughts were interrupted abruptly, and she didn't know what to say but apologize.
"Gomen ne, I wasn't listening."
Her lips tucked upwards, and flashed him a very, very, very rare smile, which made him stop on his tracks, and his heart did a little flip.
When Sakura realized the facial expression she just did, she immediately frowned and walked quickly.
"Goodbye, Li-kun."
"Nani?"
"I've reached my home…" Sakura pointed at her house at the sidewalk and said awkwardly.
"Oh… goodbye Kinomoto."
After she had left, he was left with his own thoughts.
'It is so strange. When ever I'm with her, I cannot help but feel happy, and keep on smiling. What's wrong with me? I've never felt like this before.'
Without him knowing, his cold barrier had begun to melt against a certain girl called Sakura Kinomoto, or Ying Fa, and love had begun to blossom between the two dense teenagers.
After Sakura went home, she checked the family's schedule board, and was delighted to find that her father was going to do some research after school, and onii-chan, expected, was going for work again. Both were coming home late, so she had the whole house to herself.
She went to the fridge and took out the pudding otou-san had made for her, and grinned. He had also left a very large dish of spaghetti in tomato sauce, enough for four people for dinner.She was really lucky to have a father who was great in every aspect.
While she ate the pudding, she turned on the television. It was broadcasting some kind of movie, and she watched it contentedly, until suddenly, electricity of the whole house ran out.
It was when Sakura finally realized that the windows of the house flew opened, and the curtains blew in and out. Shadows were also spilling into the floor. It looked like creepy hands, trying to get a hold of her.
With that, Sakura screamed and dropped the half- eaten pudding on the couch, scrambled up, and dashed out of the house, with a loud bang.
No matter how cool and collected she seems to be at most times, her being scared of ghosts has never ever been abandoned.
She ran aimlessly forwards in the dark, heart beating quickly, until she reached the Tomoeda Beach and halted. The streetlamps were standing there, lighting the environment, and so she went there for comfort.
Plopping on the sand, she almost immediately realized that it was a great mistake. Although the streetlamps were glowing softly, it didn't hide the creepiness of the movement of the sea waves. They rolled back and forth, the sound was deep and loud.
Also, the sea breeze was blowing strongly, and seemed to be monsters teasing with her hair.
Sakura whimpered and hid her head between the gap of her legs.
Suddenly, something tapped her lightly on the shoulder, and Sakura screamed, running backwards and unfortunately, tripped on a small rock and fell.
She saw a blur and the object ran towards her, and grabbed her wrist, but she had already lost her balance, and pulled the object down with her into the sea.
Sakura closed her eyes tightly and yelled.
"Help! I am caught by a ghost! Don't eat me! Don't eat me!"
"What are you saying?"
Hearing the familiar voice, she slowly opened her eyelids, only to find a pair of intense brown eyes staring right back at her, questioning. Sakura breathed a sigh of relief. It was no other than Li Syaoran.
Syaoran stood up and held out a hand.
"Unless you want to catch a cold, you had better get out of the freezing water."
"Hoe?"
Anything was better than seeing a ghost, even if it were her worst enemy. She took his hand and he lifted her up.
"What are you doing here alone, Kinomoto?"
It was then when Sakura saw what he was wearing. He was in an oversized plain white shirt and short, black pants, with a towel wrapped around his neck, which were all soaking wet.
She blushed crimson, feeling embarrassed, and well, maybe, it was something else that she did not realize.
"Are you okay? Your face is all red."
"Yeah."
"So, Kinomoto, can you tell me your reason sitting all alone on the sand, shivering. I was jogging, and saw you, so I…" remember the incident a moment earlier, he broke into a fit of laughter.
"Li- kun, you may not think that it is a big deal, but, I am scared of ghosts, and for you to do that!" Sakura stammered, and her cheeks flamed red again when she saw him continue to laugh.
"Fine, laugh as much as you want. Goodbye, Li- kun." She grew hot and walked away when her partner suddenly stopped laughing and got a firm hold of her arm.
"Oh, come on, I'm sorry. "
"Apology accepted."
She was about to walk away when she realized that he was still holding her arm.
"Kinomoto, you're so not leaving like that."
"What?"
He pointed to her clothings, and she whispered, "Oh my!"
He ran away from her for a second, and quickly returned, bearing a folded towel and another oversized T- shirt. He shoved the things to her.
"Change into this."
"But, Li- kun, aren't these your clothes?"
Sakura tried to protest, but was immediately stopped by the death glare from Syaoran.
He said darkly, "I said, change."
She pouted and ran towards the nearest female's changing room, unable to hear Syaoran's muffled chuckle.
'I absolutely cannot believe that this death glare I had always been bearing in Hong Kong has such a great effect even on this tomboy!'
Then, his eyes widened in shock.
'Wait a minute. Just then, wasn't she wearing a right- sized spaghetti top and jean shorts?'
But he wasn't left for his thoughts long enough to analyze Sakura's personality, since she ran towards him shortly after, wearing his favorite green shirt.
When she approached him, she heard his stomach give a low but loud rumble, she smiled, making his breathing stopped short. It was very rare for her to smile, at least in his profile. Although feeling embarrassed, he really would like to give another one to make her smile last longer.
Sakura looked at her watch and shrieked.
"Oh my, it's already eight pm! Li- kun, ummm, would you like to have dinner in my house?"
"Sure."
"Is pasta alright?"
"Yup."
Sakura started off by a jog, which Syaoran caught up easily. After that, a competition began between the two.
Each of them picked up their speed slowly until they both reached their limits and was running like the wind.
When they reached the Kinomoto residence after twenty minutes, they were out of breath.
"Li-kun, you're very good at running."
"You too. I've finally met my match."
Sakura opened the door and the two entered.
Sakura went to the kitchen to prepare the spaghetti and Syaoran sat on the couch casually. Just as he had settled down himself, he felt something squishy underneath him, and felt his shirt getting wet.
"Huh?"
"What's wrong, Li-kun?"
When she realized the familiar yellow and brown thing flattened on his back, she covered her mouth and gasped. It was the pudding her father had made for her!
"I'm so sorry. Umm."
She rushed into her onii-chan's room and took out a button-up shirt and a pair of knee- length pants.
"Here, please take a bath."
He took the clothes from her hand, and their hands brushed pass each other's briefly, but was enough to make both teenagers flush.
After taking a bath, he came out and saw that two dishes of spaghetti over tomato sauce was already lying on the dining table, while the girl was still making the tea.
They ate in a comfortable silence, not finding any topic to chat about.
When they were about to finish, she heard her doorbell ring, and her onii-chan's voice. "I'm back from work."
Touya entered and was extremely pissed out to find a boy of her sister's age sitting on the dining table, eating spaghetti.
"Sakura, who is he? And why is he wearing MY clothes?"
Sakura forced a smile and said uneasily, "Umm, he's Li Syaoran, my classmate from Hong Kong."
She knew how overprotective and intimidate Touya could be towards her.
Expectedly, Touya glared at Syaoran during the dinner, and became even more annoyed to find that he was showing no fear at all, but was glaring straight back at him.
After dinner, Syaoran requested to leave shortly after. Sakura looked apologetic and walked him to the doorstep.
"Gomen ne, Li-kun, onii-chan is too overprotective about me, and doesn't let anyone near me except Tomoyo- chan."
He stopped on his tracks and turned around, smiling warmly at her.
"It is okay. By the way, thank you for the dinner, it was delicious."
Sakura suddenly felt very hot and offered to walk him to the bus stop, but he refused and bid her farewell.
After Sakura went back home, Touya glared outside to where Syaoran had just walked past and murmered.
"A kaijuu befriending a gaki, it is really unheard of before in this world. Be careful kaijuu, don't think him as food and swallow him one day."
Sakura's eyes narrowed and her hair flared up in madness and walked towards him, stomping her feet on top of his and yelled.
"Sakura is not a kaijuu, and Li-kun is not a gaki. Why, onii-chan, do you have to keep everyone at a distance from me by scaring them away?" Without waiting for his reply, she stamped to her room and locked it.
"Because," Touya murmured softly, "I am afraid that they will take my most precious thing away from me." And then, he looked up at Sakura's room and smiled gently.
To be continued soon …
Hello everyone. Haven't you guys realized that I have made some progress again? TWO THOUSAND WORDS! YEAH! Oh my, I am now being obsessed with Cardcaptor Sakura again, so I can't resist the temptation to slip a few things here and there just like the original series.
Anyway, I just found out a very good website that broadcasts a lot of videos, including Cardcaptor Sakura:D
It is: (I think a lot of people know about this site though… I'm sooooo outdated)
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