On the ride to the Li's old apartment Sakura, happily daydreaming, craned her neck to the left facing the window of the limo. Apparently Sakura's new favorite pass-time was imagining Syaoran inside every car she now stepped into.

Imagining she being so bold as to hop onto him like that.

However it didn't mean she started seeing things. There were usually people sitting in said seats, and this was no exception.

Inside sat a girl, just as Melin said there'd be, with surprisingly short, messy brown hair and amber eyes, she had blushed furiously when her hand connected to Sakura's and she'd even known her name. She was wearing a red over jacket and faded jeans; maybe she was a bit tomboy-ish.

Sakura apologized many times for putting Melin's friend, Syao-chan, it such an overbearing position. The girl could only mutter and Sakura could've sworn that Syao-chan's eye twitched when Melin said her name.

They arrived at their designation and quickly got out of the limo, Sakura bowed in thanks to the Limo driver.

"What a polite young lass, wouldn't you agree Syao-chan?"

She blushed and glared, a familiar glare, to the driver.

'Maybe this is another one Syaoran-kun's sisters.' Sakura thought, their likeness was hilariously similar.

"Sakura-san, your birthday is coming up right?' Melin stated as she unlocked the door to the old manor.

"H-Hai." Sakura smiled nervously, she'd be the same age as Syaoran.

"Sakura-chan will be fourteen. I've already prepared for a special outfit made for that day!" Stars popped in Tomoyo's eyes as Sakura sweat dropped and squeezed past her best friend into the apartment. A feeling of nostalgia washed over her, it even smelled familiar.

"Had Syaoran-kun been here?" Sakura wondered aloud as she smelled the room, eyelids drooping slightly.

''W-why do you ask?" Syao-chan asked, beside her Melin couldn't stop snickering and Tomoyo held a very much amused grin.

Again, Syao-chan seemed to turn beet red as Sakura smiled genuinely and opened her eyes.

"Oh, just that it smells like the delicious peaches he'd made one time."

"D-Delicious?" Syao-chan stammered. Sakura cocked her head slightly to the left.

"Kawaii Sakura-chan! Such a cute head movement!"

Sakura and Syao-chan turned to the camera and wondered… 'Where'd that come from...?'

"T-Tomoyo-chan..."

"Sakura-chan I'd like for you to except an early birthday present."

"Honto ni?"

Melin smiled and clapped her hands together.

"Ich, ni san, shi, Ich, ni, san, shi..."

Sakura blinked and Tomoyo happily filmed on the side, going left to right from her to Melin as her hands threw out paper talismans similar to Syaoran's around Syao-chan's figure.

Syao-chan unexpectedly followed suit, doing the motions fluidly, a white ring appeared from the floor around her.

Sakura panicked slightly thinking something bad was happening to her.

"Syao-chan!"

The circlet burst in a flat, white glitter around her and out appeared...

"E-Eriol-kun!?"

Eriol blinked and looked down at his body. Melin giggled, her finger pointing at the second floating talisman.

"Oi! This isn't funny Melin!"

Sakura blinked, she'd notice that loud rant anywhere.

"Syaoran-kun..."

Melin finished pointing three and four so they could drop in a tiny, snowfall of sparks to fall upon Eriol revealing a fuming Li, Syaoran who pointed his finger to a laughing Melin.

"As if turning me into a girl wasn't enough, you had to turn me into that Cheshire grinning bas-"

Sakura Kinomoto happily wrapped her arms around Syaoran's neck, making him blush when her lips shyly grazed his cheek.

"Syaoran-kun!"

He tilted his head down slightly in her grasp to look at her, his arms tightly around her mid section, and as embarrassing as it was with a camera slightly in their faces, he leaned in to kiss her. Sakura blushed, and closed her eyes, waiting.

UNFORTUNATELY

They found themselves kissing plane tickets placed ever so slyly by Melin Li.

"M-Melin!" Syaoran and Tomoyo yelled impatiently. Sakura giggled and took time out to read them.

"Tickets to Hong Kong?"

Sakura left Syaoran's embrace to embrace Melin, jumping happily.

"All expenses paid, for you Miss Kinomoto to take all you love."

"I'd rather take you three." Sakura giggled as she coaxed all of them into a group hug, which Tomoyo filmed also, but mostly Sakura and Syaoran's smiling faces.

"Arigato gozaimasu!"

"Happy early birthday, Cherry blossom."

Sakura looked at Syaoran quite surprised at the term; her face tinged pink seeing him smiling at her with such confidence. Her shoulders melted down along with her eyes before kissing his cheek again.

To be able to say such a thing like that in public, even if it was just the four of them was so unlike the cold exterior he pulled when they first met…seeing Syaoran act in such a way, like his true self with that simple sentence.

"Arigato, Syaoran-kun."

I dunno, is it just me or is this one slightly longer?

Meh.