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Oh, and people have been asking why they didn't check her place. The reason is that they were panicing, and weren't thinking straight. Just thought I'd clear that up...

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Chapter 11

Rational Plan, Irrational Moment

ONE AM

"Did you guys magnage to find her?" Meiling demanded, seeing Tomoyo and Eroil return from the mall.

"No!" Tomoyo wailed, and buried her face in Eroil's shirt, "We looked for hours!"

"She wasn't in the park!" Meiling pointed out, "Let's just hope she went to the school..."

"She wasn't there." Chiharu dragged Takashi by the ear. It looked as if he had been telling lies again.

"Alright..." Meiling yawned, "As mush as I hate to admit it, I think we should call it a night..." Everyone reluctantly agreed, and headded inside, though no one could sleep. They all huddled together in the lounge room, waiting for Syaoran to return.

The time ticked away... 1:05... 1:30... 2:00... and still he didn't come back.

KINOMOTO HOUSE

Sakura sat on the couch, breathing deeply as her brother rubbed small circles soothingly on her back. Her father was out in the kitchen, looking for something. She didn't know what.

"Here..." He gave her a sleeping pill, and a glass of water, "Take this. You don't have to go back to Meiling's house tonight. I'd prefer it if you stayed here. You can call them and go back tomorrow." Sakura nodded.

"Thanks, Dad." She whispered, and made her way up the stairs. She sat on her fluffy pink bed, and dry swallowed the pill. She drained the glass of water, and lied back on the bed. After about five minutes, the drug took effect, and Sakura drifted off into sleep.

EARLY MORNING

Syaoran woke to birds chirping, and the early sunlight shining down on his face. He sat up quickly, and hit his head on something. Looking up, he saw it was a branch of some low bush. Memories from the night before came flooding back to him.

Sakura had ranted and raved... and then taken off. Syaoran had literally searched for her until he dropped. He just sat here to rest, and fell asleep. He stood up, and looked around him. He was in the middle of the town square. It was the morning rush-hour, with commuters going to and from work.

He winced as he stood up. Pain laced up his leg from the position he was sleeping in. He hobbled over to a nearby pay phone, and inserted a few cents into the slot. He dialed Meiling's home number. Now that he'd had a propper night's sleep, he had come up with a rational plan.The phoneonly rang twice before it was snatched up.

"Hello?" Meiling answered it, seeming really tired.

"Meiling," Syaoran said, "It's me. Did you guys find her last night?"

"It's Syaoran!" Meiling hissed to the group that was chattering behind her, "No... Did you?"

"No." Syaoran sighed, "But I need you to get something for me... I need Sakura's mobile number."

"Um... it's 09 3452 1253..." Meiling was obviously reading it, "Why?"

"Don't worry." Syaoran said, scratching it into the side of the phone booth with another coin, and hung up. He then dialed the number, and scratched it out. It rang for a few minutes, and then it was picked up.

"Hello?" A deep male voice answered Sakura's phone, "Can I help you?"

"Um..." Syaoran faltered, "I'm looking for Sakura... Is she there?"

"Yeah... She's asleep." Syaoran sighed, but then the voice turned even more serious, "What do you want with my sister?"

"Oh... You-your sister?" He asked, scared of her brother, "She took off o-on us last night, and we didn't know w-where she was..."

"Oh, well, she'll be out of it for a while," Touya Kinomoto told him, "Shall I tell her who's calling?"

"No, no." Syaoran said quickly, "Is she home? We only wanna know where she is."

"Yes, she's home," Touya was getting frustrated, "Who are you."

"Thank you, Mr. Kinomoto." Syaoran said quickly, and hung up. He sighed, and began to make his way back to his cousin's house.

LATER

Syaoran closed the door softly behind him. It was still too early to be making noise. That, though, didn't seem to stop everyone else.

"Syaoran!" Meiling and Tomoyo practically flew into the hall, "Did you find her?" Now that Syaoran knew where Sakura was, he found their reaction funny. He couldn't help but laugh.

"Yeah, I found her." He chuckled. The girl's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates.

"Well, where is she?" Tomoyo demanded.

"She went to her father's last night. She's still asleep." He chuckled. Tomoyo sighed, and then began to giggle, too.

"Oh my God... I can't believe we forgot to check her place!" Tomoyo burst out into fully-fledged laughter, though it was one of relief.

Soon, everyone wasn't worried anymore, and they were able to go to sleep. Syaoran, having being the only one to sleep last night, stayed up alone, and watched a few movies.

SAKURA

Sakura walked through the streets, going back to Meiling's house. Her brother told her when she woke up, that a guy had called her mobile, but hadn't given his name.

This confused Sakura. Eroil and Takashi would have told him who they were, if he hadn't recognised their voices. They only guy that Sakura knew of that wouldn't say who they were would be Syaoran... Her brother would hunt him down and murder him if he did.

She came to the door, and took a deep breath, expecting a barrage of threats and lectures from Tomoyo, and knocked on the door. When the door was answered, she looked up into the last face she expected to see.

"Sakura." Syaoran opened the door further, and let her in, "Next time you run off like that, please at least call us. We were all out looking for you. We were all worried."

"Sorry..." She looked into his eyes, "I didn't mean it."

"Come in." He said, pulling her inside and shutting the door. Sakura burst out into apologies almost immeadiately.

"Syaoran, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean what I said last night! I'm-"

"Stop it." He put his finger to her mouth to silence her, "It's ok." Syaoran used his thumbs wiped away tears that were about to come to her eyes. His eyes went dark, and, as if he was in a trance, he slowlyleaned forward, and tilted her head up with his hand on her chin. Her eyes flutteres closed of their own accord, and their lips just brushed, when they heard a squeel.

Sakura and Syaoran jumped apart, looking in the general direction of the squeel. They blushed a furious red when they saw that Tomoyo had caught the entire thing on camera.

"How adorable!" She squeeled, and ran up the stairs again, calling out to Meiling. A few seconds, a second squeeling voice joined the first. Sakura and Syaoran scurrieded off into separate directions of the house. By the time Meiling and Tomoyo came downstairs, the room was empty.

Sakura sighed and slid down the wall in the kitchen. The last thing that she needed was this. What had happened? Why did she kiss him? Why didn't she pull away? Why didn't she say no? What was wrong with her? She was never one to string a guy along.

"Sakura!" Tomoyo barged into the room, pointing the lens of the infernal camera at her face, "Why didn't you tell me you and Syaoran were an item? You two look so cute together!"

"Because we're not!" Sakura almost yelled with frustration, "I dunno what happened!"

"It looked to me like you guys kissed." Tomoyo pointed out the obvious, giggling like mad.

"No shit, Sherlock." Sakura rolled her eyes in exasperation, "I mean I don't know why we kissed!"

"Aww..." Tomoyo cooed, "Looks like poor little Sakura is in denial..." She smiled sweetly.

"What do you mean, Tomoyo?" Sakura blinked, clueless, "Denial about what?"

"You'll see." Tomoyo sing-songed, and then waltzed out of the room.

THAT EVENING

Sakura and the guys were out the back, flinging a frizbee around again.

"Ouch!" Sakrua was hit in the head with the plastic disk. She wasn't paying much attention, as she was dwelling more on what Tomoyo had said. She still didn't know what she was talking about.

"Sakura!" Syaoran yelled at her from across the field, "Pay attention!" He had obviously forgotten what had happened that morning, but it was still playing on Sakura's mind.

"What is wrong with me?" She muttered, and threw the frizbee to him. She laughed at him as he missed it, and accidentally fell into the pool that was nearby.

He grinned, and bared his teethlike a wolf, as headvanced toward her. She gulped nervously, and he stopped rightin front ofher. She tried to turn around to run away, but he caught her around the waist, and dragged her over to the pool.

"You think that was funny?" He whispered into her ear, and attempted to throw her in. She screamed, and held on tightly to his neck, dragging him in with her. They made a huge splash in the water, and emerged in the deep end, bobbing up and down like corks. Sakura laughed, and splashed Syaoran in the face. He grinned again, and splashed her back.

Without a word, though Sakura shreiked a lot, they became caught up in a fully-fledged water fight. Little did they know that there was a certain girl taping it all on video.

"Aww..." Meiling appeared over Tomoyo's shoulder, "How sweet..."

FINALLY! SOMEONE HAS GROWN A BRAIN!

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