Disclaimer: I do not own CCS, and, in this chapter's case, I do not own the song 'Anywhere But Here' by Hillary Duff.

Summary: Sakura Kinomoto, has her brother, Touya, leaving for America for his studies and had no choice but to leave Sakura somewhere else with both their parents gone and Tomoyo, Sakura's best friend in England. He only had one option… the Li Mansion. But Sakura has a grudge on Lindao Li, her ex-boyfriend who had caused her nothing but pain. She puts up a fight at first but was forced to have it her brother's way. Luckily, Lindao was in Taiwan for studies as well, and no one except a certain Syaoran Li is left at home. How can she put up with such an obnoxious and authority grubbing person?

I apologize for wrong grammar and/or syntax errors as well as misspellings!

To Hong Kong With Love

Chapter 2: Interesting

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"I see, you've met each other," he told them.

They both looked at each other and at Wei with a quizzical look.

"Mistress Sakura, meet Mr. Li Syaoran, Mr. Lindao's closest cousin. Mr. Syaoran, meet Mistress Kinomoto Sakura, Mr. Lindao's girlfriend."

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"I am not his girlfriend!" Sakura exclaimed defensively. She looked liked she just realized something when she turned to face Syaoran.

Syaoran fought back a laugh at the sight of Sakura's shocked expression. "Your brain finally processed who I am?" he asked mockingly.

Sakura blushed from embarrassment before glaring at Syaoran's grinning face. 'I should've recognized the same damn eyes,' she cursed in thought. Looking at Syaoran's eyes one more time made her realize the familiarity between him and Lindao's.

"Stalker… huh?" Syaoran was enjoying the humiliation she saw in Sakura's eyes.

"W-Well… It's all your fault!" Sakura exclaimed, eyes blazing. "You should've told me you live here!"

"I did, genius," he said with a victorious smile on his face. "But you yelled at me and said I was making lame excuses."

Remembering their earlier conversation and how she shouted the exact words made Sakura feel as small as an insect. No. Probably something smaller. The embarrassment made her shrink into something as small as a speck of dust. 'Take me now,' she pleaded silently, averting Syaoran's haughty eyes.

"How about an apology my dear guest?" Syaoran offered at Sakura's silence. It wasn't in his natural code of conduct to treat guests just like how he was treating Sakura after their terrible encounter, but he was having too much fun seeing her infuriated expression he was seriously taking it into consideration to exempt her from guest status. "Don't worry, I promise to forgive you."

Sakura faced the opposite direction. "I don't remember offering to give one," she told him before walking inside towards the mansion.

Syaoran simply chuckled before dragging the two bicycles – his and Sakura's – into the driveway and chaining them to their posts. 'Maybe having her around wouldn't be that bad,' he told himself.

Wei, who was standing by the gate during the whole encounter smiled wittily to himself before closing the gates.

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"Who does he think he is?" Sakura asked no one in particular as she stared at the innocent ceiling in her room. "How about an apology my dear guest?" she imitated Syaoran's cocky tone. "Apology my ass."

Sitting up, Sakura grabbed her bag and searched the pockets for her phone. 'Maybe I should call Touya…' she thought as she searched for her brother's name. He gave her his roaming number and instructed her to call every once in a while.

'Every once in a while,' she thought as she pushed the glowing green phone and pressed the phone to her ear. "More like every minute of every day."

She hit the blowing red phone when the network operator's voice rang in her ear saying the number she was calling was either out of coverage area or unavailable. 'He's probably still on the plane,' she concluded, checking her watch for the time. "Yep, still on the plane."

Sakura let out a sigh before heading to the veranda. "Ah, Hong Kong…" she murmured miserably to herself. She searched her pocket for her miniature mp3 player and put the earphones in her ear, hitting play. Slowly giving in to the beat, she closed her eyes and started humming. She was singing in no time.

"…When you look at me suddenly it's clear. You're burning up my dreams, crazy as it seems. I don't want to be anywhere but here…" she let the words slip from her tongue.

"Nice voice."

Sakura's eyes shot opened and towards where the voice came from – below the veranda – and shot the grinning Syaoran a death glare. "What do you want?" she asked grudgingly.

Syaoran's grin simply widened. Both his hands are inside the pockets of his jeans. "Is that how you talk to someone you owe an apology to?" he retorted. "I don't even get a 'thank you' for complimenting you on your singing? Is it really a big deal for you to use such polite greetings?"

"You ask too many questions," she simply dismissed him and went back inside her room.

'Can't he just leave me alone?' Sakura thought, irritated, as she sat down her bed. 'Are all Li's supposed to be this annoying?'

"Ugh… Now he's making me do it!'"

"You're not getting off the hook that easy," Syaoran mumbled. He walked towards a nearby tree and climbed it. He skillfully jumped the meter between the tree's branch and the balcony of Sakura's room. He sat comfortably on the stone railing.

"You know, I'm still waiting for that apology."

Sakura nearly jumped out of bed. "What are you doing here?" she yelled, flustered. "I could sue you, you know? You are invading my privacy, you pervert!"

"First of all, I'm not a pervert," Syaoran replied as he tried his best not to laugh at Sakura's outburst. "What's there to see anyway? Little missy."

"Why you rude – !!!"

"And second," he cut her off. "This is my house. You can't sue me."

Sakura looked like she was about to kill. 'Lucky for you I don't know anything about how privacy law works,' she thought furiously, her eyebrow twitching. 'You are a marked man, Syaoran Li. No one calls Sakura Kinomoto 'little missy' and lives!'

"How long do you intend on staring at me like that?" Syaoran broke her murderous trail of thoughts.

"I'm not staring, I'm glaring," Sakura corrected him. "There's a difference."

Syaoran shrugged, standing up. "Same thing."

"No. Glaring has daggers attached to it."

He tilted his head as if thinking about it. "But you're still looking, so, technically it's the same thing."

Sakura let out a tired sigh. "I asked, what do you want?" she repeated, rolling her eyes as Syaoran walked past her towards the door.

"Dinner's ready," he simply replied before turning the knob. "Wei asked me to tell you." He opened the door and stepped out. He turned to face Sakura through the opened door. "Oh, and don't forget to bring that apology with you, okay?" he added with a snicker before closing it shut.

Sakura growled as she glared at the door. "Why a guy with a big, egoistic head!?" she exclaimed, facing the ceiling as if someone in the heavens would answer her. "Why!?"

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Syaoran's P.O.V.

I knew I was still grinning when I closed the door in front of me, although I didn't know why. Maybe it was because it was fun tormenting her since I know she doesn't like me. Yeah, even then at the café when I asked if I could take the only empty seat in front of her, I knew she already hated my guts. 'It's not my fault I'm good-looking.'

Although I think it has something to do with Lindao that she reacted that way. Well, who wouldn't get angry if someone just left you and went to another country without offering any explanation whatsoever? I guess I reminded her of him. After all, they do say we resemble each other.

I chuckled.

'That girlfriend of yours is going to hate you more for this, Lindao,' I thought. Like I said, she hated him. I knew I was right when I saw how she reacted when Wei called her Lindao's girlfriend. And I just knew she's going to hate him more if she's going to stay here with me.

I chuckled.

I can't help it.

I was thinking evil things. Ways to torment Sakura Kinomoto to be exact.

It's not my fault she's fun to mess with. She's just so irritable it becomes fun.

At least now I have something to do with what's left of my summer. Probably a waste of my time… Yes, probably… But it's better than nothing.

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"It's not polite to stare at people when they're eating," I told her when I caught her eyes. I swear they're trying to kill me.

Honestly, I thought she wasn't going to go down for dinner after I 'invaded her privacy' – as she calls it – to tell her it was ready. But it wouldn't be fun if she hadn't come. Now I have more reasons to eat at home.

I grinned when she rolled her eyes. "I told you, I'm not staring, I'm glaring."

"Same thing." I knew I was slowly getting on her nerves again.

"I told you – " she cut herself off with a sigh. "Oh, no. I'm not falling for this same, senseless conversation."

I watched her eat with a grin. I can't help it, this 'sweet and kind girl' – not – is turning out to be one interesting snob.

"Now that is staring," she pointed out when she lifted her head up from swallowing a spoonful of food.

"And your point is Ms.'Lindao's girlfriend'?" I knew that'd do the trick. Oh, I can actually imagine how she's thinking of a million ways to kill me right now. 'Or maybe I'm already being tortured in her head.' My grin only widened.

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Sakura looked like flames are burning in her emerald eyes. "I told you, I'm not his girlfriend!" she shouted across the table.

Syaoran simply turned his attention back to his food. "Manners my dear guest. You're at the dining table." He was thoroughly enjoying this. He held back a snicker when he heard her mumble "Yeah, where there's more that one knife to kill you with."

She stood up from her seat after a few minutes, stomping her way back towards the stairs.

"No 'thank you for the wonderful food'?" Syaoran called after her. He was taking longer that usual since he was more busy taunting Sakura than eating the food on his plate.

Sakura halted and turned to face Syaoran with a glare. "Sure," she replied, then smirked. "I'll tell Wei 'thank you' on the way upstairs." She continued walking in the same direction.

Syaoran snickered. "A snob indeed."

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Sakura's P.O.V.

"That egoistic jerk!" I murmured to myself when I reached my room. I slumped into the bed and held a pillow on top of my face.

Why does he have to treat me like that? I thought the Li's have manners. And it makes me angrier that he seems to be really enjoying himself! I guess it's more fun teasing people when they actually respond to the taunting…

But I can't help it! "He just gets on my nerves!" I exclaimed with a growl.

He reminds me of Lindao – that bastard – somehow. They do have the same eyes. And the attitude! That same cocky attitude!

I shrugged.

I thought I was going to get away with associating with him – when all I want to do is kill him – since he's in Taiwan. Why did that darn cousin of his have to be here?!

I growled. Oh, how I'm craving to lay a punch on that face of his! And if I'm lucky, it just might be able to pop the air out of his bloated head!

"Li Syaoran," I'm sure there was venom seeping right out of my mouth together with the god-forsaken name.

I sighed as I removed the pillow from my face and stared at my favorite spot – the ceiling. 'Well he better not pull the same move on me,' I thought, remembering how I eventually fell for my idiot-of-an ex-. 'He better not.'

End of P.O.V.

Sorry if it took me ages before I could update. I honestly thought I was never going to… heehee… anyways, I hope you like what's happening. No flames please! And lots and lots of reviews, okay? Love them.