What Matters In The End

Chapter 5

Sakura was in another world today, she loved college she really did but she couldn't help but pay more attention to the window than the teacher.

Resting her head on her hand, she continued to watch outside as the rain started to pour down more heavily, making the temperature colder than usual and she sighed knowing that there was someone behind her giving her an evil look.

It had been a couple of days since the Miko incident and since Syaoran had told her off. Yeh it hurt her at first, but she didn't want to waste time thinking about the negatives in life and brushed it off. She was more intrigued about who Miko was and why he was here, in Japan.

She was glad that Syaoran, Eriol and Tomoyo were okay and doing well after what Miko had done to them. Without them noticing, she had cast a non traceable healing spell on all of them, hence the reason why she was so tired today.

Slowly closing her eye lids, she was drifting off to sleep, when a paper ball hit her hard at the back of her head.

She awoke instantly and with tired eyes, turned around knowing fully who the culprit was.

"What was that for Syaoran?" she asked throwing the paper ball back at him.

Syaoran gave her a glare. "Owww that hurt" he sarcastically replied and opened his book.

"The teacher wants us to solve some problems…and I was partnered up with you" he said with hate.

Sakura stared at him with a confused expression on her face; they were given problems to solve? Looking around, she noticed everyone was in pairs working, and she noticed that Tomoyo and Eriol were at the other side of the room, chatting away.

She blushed in embarrassment and gave a soft giggle facing towards Syaoran.

"What is so funny?" he asked giving her a clueless look and he raised his eyebrow.

Sakura had to do a double take for a moment at the expression on his face, but she grabbed her books and turned to face him again.

"It's nothing" she replied with a smile and covered her mouth to yawn, "So what are the problems we have to do?"

Annoyed that she should have been listening, he banged his notebook on the desk in front of her. Sakura was startled a bit, but shook it off and stared into the book.

"Ummm what do we have to do?" she asked nervously looking at all the numbers and letters which were slowly jumbling up in her mind.

Syaoran sighed in frustration. "Next time, bloody pay attention" he scolded and grabbed his pencil, "We have to balance out these chemicals and then we have to experiment."

He said pointing the beakers and Bunsen burners.

Sakura nodded, showing that she understood what he was saying and went straight to work.

It took them a while, but they had finally finished the equations. Well, Syaoran finished it, seeing as Sakura missed out on the lesson the teacher gave to them, explaining how to figure the equations out.

Syaoran had to teach her from scratch and was stating to get really annoyed at her constant questions on how to do this and that when he had already explained it to her a thousand times. To him it was like talking to a brick wall.

Sakura did her best to listen to him, and she knew he was getting frustrated at her but she couldn't help it, she just wasn't with it today.

She looked into Syaoran's amber eyes, "Thank you" she said as she got up and walked into the laboratory.

Syaoran stared at her retreating figure confused. Thank you for what? He asked himself.

He too got up from his seat and headed towards the laboratory.

They put on their safety goggles, gloves and a white lab coat, making them look like professional scientists.

He sat down beside her and leaned back onto the table behind him. He had decided since he mostly did all the hard work she can do the chemical mixing. Nothing could go wrong if she had been listening to him.

Sakura walked in front of the table so she could clearly see what she was doing.

The labels on the chemicals weren't marked so she didn't know which chemical was which. There were 4 beakers filled with 4 different coloured liquids.

She looked over at Syaorans direction only to see him leaning casually on the table.

"Aren't you going to help?" she asked taking off her safety glasses, so she could see him better.

He gave Sakura a cold look "No, why should I? I did most of the other work, it's your turn to do some" he replied and stared off into space.

"But I don't know which chemical is which?" she said pouting, putting hands on her hips.

Syaoran shrugged "That's your problem:"

Sakura scrunched her face at him and put her glasses back on. Fine, I can do this myself. I'll show you, she spoke in her mind and grabbed the beaker with the red liquid and emptied it onto a bigger empty beaker.

Syaoran, though he pretended he was looking away, watched as she confusedly took the red beaker and poured it into a bigger one. He then saw her reach for the blue one and added it with the red. She looked serious, and the look of concentration on her face said it all.

He kinda expected her to blow up the place but so far, so good.

He then watched her as she was having a battle within herself, on which chemical goes next. Honestly he didn't know what to do with the chemicals either but didn't want to admit it. Better her making a fool of herself than me, he told himself and continued to watch her.

Sakura grabbed the beaker with a clear liquid in it and poured it with the others. The liquids she had just mixed turned yellow and clear. She smiled to herself thinking that she had done the experiment well but when she looked down, the yellow liquid was now starting to bubble, "Uh oh" she said aloud grabbing Syaorans attention.

He looked at her and saw what she was looking at. Her experiment was bubbling fast and steam was arising from it.

"DUCK" he yelled to everyone loudly, and covered himself. The others who were inside the room took cover as well.

The beaker exploded, sending broken glass flying everywhere across the room and smoke surrounded the area.

Everyone soon got up and checked if they were still in one piece. Eriol checked over Tomoyo and asked if she was okay. She nodded her head and looked over at the direction the mini explosion came from.

"You stupid idiot" yelled Syaoran getting up and brushing off the broken glass that had landed on him. "You could have killed us all".

Sakura got up also, not noticing that her hand was bleeding.

"Well if you would have helped me, maybe this wouldn't have happened" she shot back this time trying to give a glare of her own, but it wasn't working.

"Well you should have been listening to the teacher" he finished. He knew he got her there.

Sakura stopped arguing because he was right, but she wasn't going to tell him that though.

She turned around to look at her class mates, thankfully there were only 6 of them in the room.

"Im sorry, are you guys okay?" she said to the two students over by the door. The students gave her a kind smile, "Don't worry about it Sakura" the long brunette haired one said. "I've done it heaps of times".

Sakura smiled back, "Thanks" she replied and turned her head towards Eriol and Tomoyo.

"Are you guys alright?" She asked clasping her hands together.

Eriol chuckled, "Yeh we're fine, how bout you?. Wait your hand is bleeding" he started to panic.

Tomoyo seeing this immediately made her way to Sakura, making sure she didn't step on any of the glass. She grabbed her hand and took her to the taps, washing the blood away.

"Next time when we're doing an experiment, warn us first before you mix any chemicals" she teased, wrapping a bandage around Sakura's wound.

Sakura nodded and gave her a hug. "Thanks Tomoyo" she replied. She was grateful to have friends who were always there to cheer her up. They made her day alot better.

Syaoran rolled his eyes at the sight and turned away to face Eriol. They both started clean the mess that Sakura had made. He felt just a tinge of guilt for not helping her when he knew she was somewhere else in her mind.

For the rest of the day, Sakura took things easy. She went to sleep in some of the classes, but the teachers didn't mind if it was just for today since she was a valuable student. They could see how tired and exhausted she was. No one had a clue exactly why she was like this, including her friends. They just thought it was because Chemistry class took alot out of her.

Outside the rain had stopped, and the afternoon sun shone brightly.

Sakura sat on a dry bench underneath the old oak tree behind the college campus by herself, during her lunch break. She looked around to see if there was anyone in sight and while no one was looking, she chanted her healing spell on her injured hand and before you know it, the cut was gone.

"Handy trick" Syaoran said jumping off the branch he was resting on.

Sakura jumped in fright, and looked at the amber eyed man in front of her. She laughed nervously.

"Hehe Syaoran... How long have you been up there?" she asked putting her hands behind her back.

Syaoran stared at her with no emotion. "Long enough to see you heal your wound" he said and started to walk closer to her "I'm not stupid you know. You used that same healing spell on me."

Sakura's eyes widened, "How did you know I used one on you?" she said coolly trying to get him off the scent.

He stopped infront of her, crossed his arms and looked into her emerald eyes, making her shudder underneath his gaze. "Because I can sense it"

"But it's a non traceable spell" she told him and put her hands to her waist.

Syaoran continued to stare into her emerald eyes, but this time giving her a cold look.

"Im trained to sense these types of things, while Eriol and Tomoyo aren't".

Sakura opened her mouth to answer back, but a husky male voice interrupted her.

"Sakura" a male voice said, beside her.

Slowly she turned around to face the man, and when she did her emerald eyes opened in shock, and she froze right there and then on the spot. She became silent and trembled just a little.

Syaoran glared at the man for interrupting their important conversation. He sceptically examined him, and then looked towards Sakura. The expression on her face was one different to the one he saw a minute ago. She looked as though she was sad, pained and hurt, scared even.

Who the hell is this guy? Syaoran thought, and gave him another glare. His cold amber eyes met with ruby coloured ones.

Author's Notes: Hola! Sorry for the short chapter. I have noticed in my previous chapters that Sakura and Syaoran haven't talk much to each other, so I made this chapter especially for them.

R&R

Always Chikka