Unlikely Love
Syaoran got out the car and looked around, waiting for Sakura to get out. He turned around, she was still sitting there and pretending not to notice.
"Get out." He said opening her door but before he could she locked it.
"I don't feel like it." Sakura said.
"Sakura…" Syaoran dragged out her name. Sakura rolled her eyes and looked at him.
"Yes?" she unlocked the door, and scooted over so he could sit down. Syaoran sighed and got in.
"Look I know you don't want to be here but me neither-"
"Then how come we're here."
"Because I have to present you to the Elders."
"Did you have to do that with the other fiancés…?"
"Err no… because the elders picked them. This time my mom did."
"Momma's boy." Sakura said crossing her arms but smiling at the same time.
"Yes I know I am. Happy now? So please just go?"
"YES!" Sakura yelled happily making Syaoran wince. "I got a video of you admitting you're a momma's boy!" she said gleefully showing him her phone. Which was a pink razor, with a hello kitty charm. (MY PHONE! XD)
Syaoran rolled his eyes and grimaced. "That's just for you then. Don't show anyone else. Can we please go now?" he asked pulling on her arm.
"Nooooo! I don't want tooo" Sakura wailed pushing him. Syaoran sighed, Yelan (thanks for finding the name!!!!) wasn't going to be happy. He was supposed to go present Sakura and get the Elders permission.
Syaoran sighed grumpily. "Come on. I'm going to get in trouble if you don't go." he whined. "Please?"
"NO." Sakura stated simply and started the music on her phone, she started singing to Lucky star by nightcore. ( XD I like the song. Listening to it now!) Syaoran sighed and grabbed her wrist and tried pulling her out.
"COME ON!" he said through gritted teeth, getting annoyed.
Sakura grabbed the car door. " NO I UN WANNA!" she yelled, trying to kick him off. He grabbed her ankles.
"COME ON!"
"AGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH," She yelled her grip slipping the two landed on the grass tangled in a heap. Sakura ended up sitting on top of Syaoran.
She immediately tried to get off him but Syaoran grabbed her. "Let me go." She said glaring at him. Syaoran smirked and said nothing but lay there.
"Ummm… you're freaking me out so I'm gonna leave. Ok?" before he could answer she grabbed his keys and ran for the car.
"Hey…" Syaoran said jumping up but didn't really bother to go after her. He sighed and headed for the "temple of Elders" (yes corny or w/e but I couldn't think of anything haha…)
"Syaoran, we are very disappointed in you." One of the elders said.
"Yes, your mother said that'd you would be showing us the new fiancé? Hmm?"
"So where is the girl?" the first elder asked.
"Well… she kinda made off with my car." Syaoran chuckling at how the words came out. "I didn't really mean to say that. It came out weird sorry." He said still smiling.
"It's not a laughing matter, Syaoran this is important! How will you take over the Li clan if you do not have a fiancé! You-"
"Have to be married by eighteen or the chance will be passed on to another on of your cousins." Syaoran stated matter o factly. "I know, I know, I've already heard this before. I will but I don't wanna just marry someone who doesn't like me for me… all those other girls only liked me because they'd become queen, duh. I mean uhh of course." He said after they shot him death glares.
"Well, you still have a little time. You have from now until Valentine's day to find a fiancé. And actually stick to that one. Understood?"
Syaoran bowed. "Yes, understood." He said heading for the door. Once outside he patted his pocket. 'Uh-oh…' he thought getting frantic. 'What'd I do with my keys! Eriol will kill me if I don't give the car back to him!' he said searching his pockets until he found a envelope he hadn't noticed before. (XD idiot.)
He opened it to find a picture of Sakura, 'Ha… she actually looks… innocent? I dunno in this picture…' he thought his mind wandering. The picture was of Sakura in a white flowy dress in the spring time sitting under a cherry blossom tree. She was holding her name sake flower and smiling cheerfully.
There was a paper along with it… It was her application for her job as temporary secretary, while his was out on vacation. Tomoyo had given it to him a while back but he never really got to it. He left it in his wallet since.
"Oh, crap!" he said "Where's my wallet!" he yelled frustrated and started his search again. "Man… Sakura must have taken it when she took the keys!" he yelled pulling out his cell phone the only thing she didn't take apparently. It read out of service. "Fucking piece of crap…" he muttered.
Sakura making her way to the nearest mall possible… (haha)
Sakura grinned first her day was crappy. Waking up at Syaoran's being dragged to the middle of no way to meet some people she didn't know. And being with Syaoran in general… 'Well that part wasn't so so bad.' She thought. (of course they have to like each other even if they don't' get a long.)
Sakura flipped through Syaoran's wallet and yawned. 'Not very much' she thought 'for some rich guy I expected more credit cards.' She didn't think much of it until she found photos.
"Ok… what's this." She pulled out the long strip. Every section had Syaoran with some new girl every time. None of them were really happy pictures. In each one he was buying something for the new girl, with them smiling gleefully and him so emo… (XD)
Sakura laughed and put the wallet in her purse. This time he won't be in the picture she though, pulling out his American Express Gold Membership.
Four hours later…
Syaoran flopped down in front of the steps to the Li mansion exhausted. Since he didn't have a car, and his cell was out of service. He didn't really have anywhere to go. Defiantly not back to the Elders they probably would have said he was irresponsible or should be in charge, or other things along the line.
He heard a car pull up and turned around to see Sakura get out a tell the servants something before coming his way. He flopped back down. Sakura walked up behind him, and gave him a hug.
"Eh?" he looked up surprised, but smiled at the gesture and hugged her back, then stopped and looked at all her bags. Including the ones the servants are carrying. "S-sakura… what'd you do?" he half whispered staring at them in terror.
"Did a little bit of shopping." She replied handing him the give bags in his arms. He looked inside to see clothes. Syaoran shuddered.
"You bought me clothes…" he said it as if the words were tainted or something. Sakura smiled "If we're to be seen together then you have to dress better." She said looking down at him. He was wearing a green polo, beige shorts and sneakers.
Syaoran looked inside the bag again and pulled out a t-shirt from Aeropostale. He nearly dropped it out of shock but Sakura caught it and dragged him inside. Everyone was home. Yelan smiled.
"Oh, wonderful!" she said coming over to hug them. "You two are getting along!"
"In a way of speaking." Syaoran muttered under his breath trying to keep his anger from getting the best of him.
"Ya, it's great! Syaoran wasn't too happy with what I picked though." She pouted, pretending she was sad. Li's sister's rushed over, and grabbed the bags from Syaoran.
"Oh my gosh! That's so cute how come you don't like it Syaoran!"
"Aww, and she bought it just for you! Why didn't you pay!"
"B-but Futie I did!" Syaoran yelled exasperated.
"Oh. Alright then. Let's go make him try it on!" she yelled to the other sister's who dragged him upstairs. Sakura smirked this will be fun. She thought grabbing a few more bags and dragging them upstairs.
Sakura looked around the made room for her. "Wow…" she whispered "Nice." She said running over and jumping on her pink canopy bed.
"Yup," Yelan walked over and sat on the edge of Sakura's bed.
"Oh I'm sorry about that." Sakura apologized. "I don't know what you saw though." She said blushing.
"It's alright…" Yelan sighed. "Syaoran tried to work very hard on this room so it fit you." She said just letting her thoughts out.
"Really? When did that happen…?" Sakura asked.
"Well, it was kind of a long time ago." She paused. "Did your dad tell you that you two used to be friends?"
Sakura nodded "Kind of but not really."
"Well you were and back then Syaoran wanted you to stay over see for like the summer and all. And well Syaoran didn't want your room to be just plain so he made one himself for you." She smiled at the thought.
"Oh…" Sakura looked around again. "Seriously how old was he?"
"Well… I don't know but you, Syao, as you liked to call him, Tomoyo, Mei-Lin were friends when you were like in kindergarten together. Up until third grade I think was it…Mei-Lin and Syao had to move Hong Kong, for family businesses and such. Then well, you split up pretty much."
Sakura looked more closely at the room. On the corkscrew board were pictures from photo booths with the four and little kids. Not thinking, she smiled and walked over. There was a few of them with picture of birthdays, Christmas parties, with a gigantic tree, and the four exchanging present.
The pictures brought back memories Sakura hadn't thought of in a long time. "Wow… so we really were friends."
Yelan smiled and left Sakura to look through some of her old things she'd left behind. Sakura didn't notice her leave.
She started searching through the desk beside the window, which was cluttered with dolls and books. She picked up a pink journal with a heart lock. When she did there was a note underneath it.
She picked it up and read out loud to herself. "To you whoever reads this. STAY AWAY this is private property of Sakura Kinomoto." She laughed. " IF THIS IS SYAORAN YOU BEST BE CAREFUL! OR IMMA KILL YOU EVEN IF YOU'RE MY FRIEND! Love, Saku." Smiling she put it down, and took the key out from it's secret hiding spot behind the bookshelf subconsciously.
She flipped to the first page to see childish handwriting. Sakura squinted trying to comprehend her own handwriting.
"June 20, 1998 (I think they'd be sixteen for that year… I think… XD and it's just made up k I don't really know when their birthday is. And they'll be eight here.)
Dear Diary,
Guess what today's my birthday:D And guess what's my favoritist birthday present. YOU! Syaoran gave me to you. I'm so happy… but there's a problem. Syaoran says he's going to have to go away soon… I wonder why he won't tell me. He says he'll come and visit. I don't believe him… But I know I'm going to miss him though…" There was a difference in the writing and Sakura knew she had stopped in between. In between the gaps was unmistakably a faded splatter.
'Had she been crying…? For Syaoran no way… ' she thought 'but we were friends…'
"I can't believe he's moving!" she read in a flat tone squinting at the words, they were smudged and shaky. The rest she couldn't make out because of the tears. "I don't ---- he has to ------ I'm going to ------- soo muchhh----- don't want------ love him…" Sakura stared at the words and tried to fill in the words which was too hard.
"I don't believe it… He has move. I'm going to miss him so much… I don't want him to leave." She stopped reading, and shut the diary when she got to love him…