1. I realize pretty much none of you like the fact that Sakura kissed another guy, but it's a story. I have to have conflict to make a story feasible. Please keep that in mind.
2. I think I got maybe 5 reviews? What, did all of you suddenly CROAK?!? What's happening here?!?!?!?
3. Sorry I haven't updated in forever, school has been over for about two weeks but I've been working!!.
4. DISCLAIMER: I only own this plot - not the actual Card Captors. I'd be rich if I did, neh?

Chapter 9: Afterthoughts of a Mistake

Moriyama woke up long before Sakura, but it was about 7 when he had. They had fallen asleep and woken up in the same position, and because of that, his arm had been underneath her the whole night. "Great...my arm's asleep." He mumbled as he carefully slid his arm out from under her, so as not to wake her.

He wiggled his arm around as he slipped quietly out the door and downstairs into the kitchen.

"Well, you two fell asleep early," Yuuko's voice came to him as he entered the kitchen, thinking he was alone.

He was slightly startled, but regained his stature quickly. "How do you even know when we- err, I fell asleep?"

She went about to fixing him a bowl of cereal. She set it in front of him and sat down, "I came into your room at around six. What were you even doing?" she asked accusingly.

"Wha-? What do you mean by that?" he sputtered with a mouthful of cereal. He chewed it hard and swallowed.

"Li, what were you doing with her?" she repeated.

"Don't use my name like that!" he said sharply. "I was just comforting her." He said harshly.

"Don't you dare talk to me like that!" Yuuko stood up and glared down at him.

"Sorry!" he said quickly. "But like I said, I was just there for her." He continued eating his cereal.

She sat down hard and continued to look at him with those same hard eyes. "Why did she need comforting in the first place?" she smirked mischievously and she narrowed her eyes.

"I don't know." He lied, looking down at his cereal.

"You are a terrible liar." She laughed at him.

"Better than being a good one…" he sighed.

"Just tell me what happened!" she prodded him for information.

"I-…we sort of-…" his mouth was forming words, but none were coming out. She stared at him hard; he couldn't even look up at her when she did this. "We sort of…kissed." He said drawing back on the stool a little bit.

She exploded, "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?? YOU KNOW SHE'S WAITING FOR SYAORAN TO COME BACK!! YOU CAN'T JUST STEP IN AND TAKE HIS PLACE!!!" she screamed.

"Be quiet!!" he hissed. "I don't want her hearing you!" he said sounding hoarse.

"SHE MIGHT AS WELL!! SHE'LL HAVE TO HEAR IT SOONER OR LATER!!" she said as an ending argument and stormed out of the room.

He slammed his fist down onto the table as he glowered at the wall. He would have loved to see the wall melt, just so he could feel like he could control something.

He slammed his other fist down and stood up. He put his bowl into the sink and walked back upstairs to his room.

When he opened the door, he had forgotten that she was asleep, but soon realized again that she was.

Just the sight of her made him calm down. He wanted to be with her so badly, but under these circumstances, it was impossible, for her at least.

His eyes wandered outside past the curtains; everywhere seemed to be buzzing with the air of happiness, though it seemed to elude him.

He felt a pang of sadness as his gaze lowered to the floor. He ran his hands halfway through his hair and then let them drop to his sides. He felt a little bit tired, so he decided to lie back down to see if he could get anymore sleep. He put his left arm under his pillow and his right arm back around her.

He had been lying there for a few minutes when he realized he was cold. He lifted himself up off of the bed and pulled the covers over himself. "You're so beautiful…" he thought to himself as he gazed at the peaceful, sleeping Sakura.

He lay back down and pulled the covers further up than where they were. He resumed his previous position and soon fell asleep to the sound of her breathing again.

He woke up again about two hours later, he found out as he looked at his alarm clock behind him. He turned back around and scooted closer to her. She was as warm as a heated blanket.

She seemed to arouse a little bit; he pretended to be asleep. She stretched her legs out and then turned on her back. She felt his arm fall onto her stomach.

She looked at where his arm was and then at him. She smiled whole-heartedly and then turned to face him. She blew softly onto his forehead and smiled.

He pretended to wake up, feeling somewhat groggy. "Whatime isit?" he yawned.

She giggled at his childish behavior. "It's about 9." She smiled. "Wait…today is Sunday...shoot." she sighed/huffed. "Oh well…it had to come sometime." She faked a smile, though it fooled no one.

"Sakura, I know you will probably say no…but on the slight chance you might say yes, I'll ask you." He decided aloud. "Do you want me to go in with you when I take you back?" he looked into her eyes.

"Thank you, but no." she smiled sadly. "I will be in so much trouble…I don't want you to get involved…anymore than you already are that is." She moved up to him and rested her head on his arm.

"Do you realize how involved I actually am in this?" he asked, not quite sure if she did.

"Maybe I don't…" her voice sounded vague and distant.

"Well, let me help you." He said trying to be nice about it. "You have someone you're basically betrothed to-"

"Syaoran and I aren't betrothed!" she sat up quickly and looked at him, somewhat surprised.

"I didn't say you were I said you are basically betrothed to him. Now please let me finish." He sat up as well. "Your father told you to be back earlier than you were out, you were with me that whole time, when your brother and friend came looking for you, you saw me, and asked me for a ride somewhere, to which I willingly obliged. You came home with me to my house, spent two nights, one of which we slept in the same bed, though nothing happened. And then there's last night…" he didn't need to finish for her to understand he was basically the reason all this had happened.

"Moriyama I'm so sorry…" she cried as her voice broke softly. Her head fell into her hands and she was sobbing, but wasn't crying.

"Hey, I'm the one who gave you a ride and let you into my house and made…other things happen..." he said awkwardly.

"Yes, but-" she started, looking up at him.

"But nothing, just stop talking about it." He waved it off.

"So, is there anything you want to do today?" he said trying to change the subject.

"There's something I don't want to do…" she said dryly.

"I know that! But what I asked was what you wanted to do." He laughed shortly.

"I don't suppose you could take me for that lunch could you?" she looked over at him with a small and hopeful smile on her face. "Well…seeing as how I was supposed to yesterday…yes!" he smiled.

"Whatever!! I just want to go somewhere!" she laughed as she rubbed her fingers over her eyes once.

"Well, you didn't bring much to wear now did you?" he said sarcastically as he stood up.

"Nope." She stated quite simply. "But no one has really seen me in what I wore. I suppose it's fashionable to wear this…" she laughed.

"Well, you go put your stuff on in there," he motioned to the bathroom, "And I'll put something on out here." He opened his closet door.

"Knock when you're done I guess." She said as she grabbed her kosode off the back of the door.

He nodded and went about picking something out to wear.

She locked the door and looked at herself in the mirror. "Sakura, you are such an idiot. After how badly you felt last night and now you're basically going on a date with him." She shook her head at herself.

She pulled the sweater off and brushed her hair. She carefully put her kosode on and tied it. She looked at in the mirror and straightened it in a few places.

A clear knock came into the bathroom.

"I'll be out in a minute!" she said sounding happy. She hadn't meant it to sound like that, it just had.

She came out a few minutes later after looking at herself again in the mirror, "Ready." She smiled.

"Okay, let's go then!" he said walking to the door. She followed him downstairs and out to their garage.

"Here you go!" he had opened the door for her. "Thank you!" she laughed as she sat down. He waited until she had made sure nothing was in the way of the door shutting and he shut it.

He went around and got in on his side. "So, anyplace in particular you'd like to go?" he asked as he pressed a button on his dashboard, the garage door came up.

"Um…not really. I don't eat out too much." She admitted as they pulled out of the driveway.

"Perfect, I know just the place to take you!" he smirked as he turned left out of the semi-long driveway.

Sakura felt how powerful the car was; she hadn't noticed it the first time she was in the car because she had been too distressed to notice. "So…did your mom buy you this car?" she asked feeling the leather on the door.

"No, I actually won it in a competition a few years back. My mom didn't want me to have it really, but I won her out in the end." He laughed. "She thought I would kill myself in this car, but I haven't had a single wreck."

"Impressive." She said semi-interested.

"You're not much for cars are you?" he noticed her bored look.

"Nope." She admitted, smiling.

"Well, how about some music?" he handed her a CD case and unzipped it.

"Wow!" she exclaimed as she looked through the CD's. "You have some good ones!" she said as she flipped through his R & B section. She came to some more alternative music. "You like everything don't you?" she said as she handed him a the Postal Service CD.

"Pretty much. I miss the older days though, the 90's had better music." He laughed as he pushed it into the CD drive.

She was soon singing to the "Such Great Heights" song and was head-banging a little bit.

"You have such a beautiful voice!" he said astonished.

"Oh!" she turned pink, "Thanks!" she said sarcastically.

"No, I'm serious!" he said looking at her for a moment. "You have a really good voice!" he sounded amazed that she thought otherwise. "However, I wouldn't have picked you for this type of music!" he laughed.

"Well…people change…I've done it more in some areas of my life than others." She gave a small smile.

"That's the truth." He laughed. She looked at him, slightly offended. "No no no, I meant that yeah, people change." He explained to her quickly.

"Oh...yeah." she agreed. She leaned her head on her hand, which was propped up on the door. The CD rolled on, but he changed it back to "Such Great Heights" in the middle of another song.

She hummed the song and occasionally sang a few words, but she began to listen to the words more. They meant something to her this time. She had never really listened to the words before when she had heard it or sang it to herself, but this time she felt them.

"Here we are." He said turning off the engine.

She noticed that he had parked in a space next to a cool, retro looking restaurant.

The next few minutes seemed like a blur as he led her into the restaurant and they got a table at a booth in the back. It seemed a bit more secluded from the chaos surrounding them.

"So what would you like?" he asked handing her a menu.

She opened it and scanned it, "Um…I think a…" she trailed off.

He noticed she had her eyes locked on someone or something in the restaurant.

"See someone you know?" he asked trying to follow her gaze.

"Yeah…" she said breathlessly. The man she was looking at made eye contact with her, "Yukito…"

squeeeee i loooove yukitooo. haha. he is so adorable and i love his voice purrs
ahem okay sorry about that. momentary brain lapse, heh.

anyways...im seriously considering changing the way I've headed with the story. I have a few chapters written ahead and I think I'm going to head in another direction. I switched my idea while in the middle or writing this story and now that I think about it it makes everything seem a little wrong to me...so i think im going to change it. obviously i wont tell you what im changing it TO because that would give everything away!! haha.

and now i'll actually have something to write about again! YEEAAAHHH. i mean seriously...i've been writing SOOO Much and i've finished most of my stories (none of which are posted) for a quizilla account i haven't done anything with.but yeah hopefully ill get that up and running in the next few weeks. if you want to look me up on quizilla, my account name is ShiningStarr. (i think...hahaha)

so anyways...i hope you guys are liking the story and sorry if i didn't respond to your review, school was a MOTHER. ugh. anyways, ill be able to respond now so feel free to ask questions and make comments or point out grammatical errors. haha.

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