Author's Note: Sorry for the long wait... I'm busy right now... Just finished my last assignment... Thank God... Exam starts on Friday... so need to revise... I even have to postpone sending chapter 1,2,3 & 4 of my thesis... can't keep up with the course.. too much assignments and fieldworks.. little time to indulge myself... which mean... less time to write... huhuhu... (TT-TT)

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Chapter IV: Untenable Situations

It was cold, very cold. It wasn't usually that cold but the coldness made her felt like staying in bed, under the warmth of her big blanket. She reluctantly pushed the blanket off her body and walked to the window. It was raining, heavily raining that she could barely see the usual park in front of the house. She opened the window and shivered when the cold wind caressed her skin violently. It would be nice to just forget everything. She thought she could sleep it off. She really thought she could but the first thing that came to her mind when she opened her eyes was the laugh that came out from his mouth yesterday. Even if she was mad at him, no, she wasn't mad, she was furious, totally infuriated, that was the sincerest laugh ever came from him. The one that she had the liberty to witness, that is. His eyes lit up with his unrestraint laughter. She was clouded with fury back then but when she let herself immersed in thought, she knew he was not trying to make her mad, she hoped so. But he had always dash the hope she had for him, so she had to let her guard up before he knew he could affect her with just a simple laugh. The sincere one, not the plastic smiles and laughs he kept for his fan girls and 'friends'.

Sakura sighed; the cold didn't help her to forget him at all. She might as well take a warm bath and go to the campus. The rain had never been her reason for not showing up in class, why try now? She loves the rain, it calms her down. The soothing breeze and the sound of the rain has always been her companion when she tried to find herself.

She sighed harshly and grabbed her bag and car key. Maybe she would be better if she did not acknowledge that yesterday happened. Just forget all about it and her life would be just like it always had been. There was no way in hell she would let him get the better of her. Tomoyo and Eriol were finally home and would be at the campus that day. That jerk was scared of Tomoyo and Chiharu, so he might not make her life any worse. Hopefully.

She drove carefully as the rain was currently getting heavier as the time passed. She tried to focus on the road but somehow her mind kept on drifting to a certain boy. She shook her head and growled to herself for even thinking about him. He did not worth her time of the day. She slapped herself to punish herself for even imagining his face.

"What's wrong with me?" she thought out loud. She knocked her head on the steering wheel in frustration. She was shocked when she heard a car honking at her and turned her eyes back at the road, skidding off the road as she realized she had drove into the opposite lane. She tried to get into the right lane but lost control of her car and bumped into a tree. Sakura touched her forehead and saw the blood marring her white hand, "Oh God! This better not make the front page tomorrow." Sakura said inwardly before she passed out after feeling the indescribable pain on her head and leg.

Tomoyo

"Where in the world is Sakura? She doesn't usually miss her class," Tomoyo said as Eriol nodded in agreement. Sakura never miss her class without telling Tomoyo first. Something was wrong. She just knew it. Even the jerk that usually makes Sakura's life a little miserable each day, kept looking around as if looking for the unassuming girl. He even looked at her as if asking where Sakura was. Tomoyo glared at him, telling him with her eyes, "Why do you care so much?" Eriol shrugged his shoulders when Syaoran turned his eyes to Eriol when he knew Tomoyo would never give him the answer he wanted.

"Why don't you call her? Ask her where she is and stop glaring at him. He just showing his concern," Eriol knew that Syaoran had an eye on Sakura but he just did not know how to show it. His pranks on Sakura had made Tomoyo really angry with him, and even if Syaoran was his best friend, no one mess with Tomoyo Daidouji's cousin and get away with it. Tomoyo dialed Sakura's number and waited for her to pick up but she was not finished with her boyfriend.

"The hell with his concern! He and his concern can be put into the bin and set on fire again and again. And you! Don't even think you can get out of it. Who gives you the liberty to send out her number to that jerk?" the usually sweet Tomoyo was angry with him when she found out that he gave Sakura's number to Syaoran. Well, he couldn't help it really. He sounded really desperate and she knew how close Syaoran was with him. They were like brothers and brothers helped each other in need.

"Let it go, Tomoyo honey. He was really desperate," Eriol tried to reason with her but Tomoyo was not listening to him when she heard the phone had been picked up, "Sakura, where are you?"

Eriol sighed as he leaned on the chair and looked around the class. The professor saw that Tomoyo was talking on the phone but said nothing as she was one of the best in the class. Unfortunately, when Tomoyo suddenly got up from her seat, he had to ask, "What's wrong, Miss Daidouji?"

"I have to go to the hospital. Sakura.. Oh, God! Excuse me, sir," Tomoyo said, without finishing her explanation. She had a look of panic on her face and quickly took her bag. Syaoran knew something must have happened and it had to do with Sakura. Eriol looked at him and Syaoran knew he had to go too.

"I'm sorry for the inconvenience, professor," Eriol bowed and quickly followed his frantic lover out of the class and Syaoran dashed out without saying anything to the professor. The professor sighed and quickly clapped his hands to get the attention back to him, "Okay, as much as you all love the drama, class has to be continued. So, as I was saying before, this theory is not really difficult to comprehend if you have the basics all in your head." And the class continued, unaware of the mishap that had happened to their classmate.

Tomoyo and Eriol were in the car when Syaoran opened the door and made himself comfortable at the back seat, "What are you doing?" Tomoyo asked, even in her frantic state, her hate for the boy did not dissipate.

"I'm going," Syaoran said as Eriol drove out of the parking lot before Tomoyo asked him to throw Syaoran out of the car. Tomoyo glared at them both and just sat on her seat, sulking with arms folded under her chest. She hated it when Eriol conspired with the insufferable jerk.

"What happened to her?" even if he was scared of Tomoyo, he knew she was a sweet girl. But not to him, apparently and he knew why. There was no explanation needed anymore. We all know what had happened.

"None of your freaking business, jerk!" Tomoyo barked but Eriol answered him, "She got into an accident." Tomoyo glared at her boyfriend, soon-to-be fiancé with a look of betrayal. Syaoran nodded, trying to stay calm. Eriol knew better that when he tried to stay calm, that meant Syaoran was panicking on the inside. He could see Syaoran was gritting his teeth, feeling anxious about the girl that he had bullied all his life.

They stayed quiet all through the drive. When they reached the hospital, Tomoyo and Syaoran ran out of the car and quickly went to the emergency room. While Tomoyo demanded to see her beloved cousin, Syaoran was on the phone and ran straight to the elevator. Tomoyo was not in the mood to ask where he was going and she waited for the nurse to search for her cousin. Fortunately, she was put into a ward and already in stable condition.

She waited for Eriol and then they both went to the ward that Sakura had been assigned to. She had no idea where Syaoran had gone to when Eriol asked her for his best friend, so she just shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly. When they arrived at Sakura's room, he was already there, sitting so comfortably on the chair right beside Sakura. He could have told them he already knew where her room was but the jerk just ran off by himself. He sure was getting on her nerves and how he knew where Sakura was, quickly came into her mind. Tomoyo looked at Sakura and almost cried looking at the state she was in. Her head was bandaged and her right leg was fractured. She sniffled a bit and took out her phone from her bag and called Sheifa. Yelan was out of country, currently, so she better called Sheifa to tell her about Sakura.

"Hello, Sheifa-nee, oh, you'd already been told. I see. I'm in her room right now. Yeah, she got a concussion and a leg fracture. Other than that, I don't see anything. No scratch or bruise, as far as I can see. Okay, I'll wait here," Tomoyo spoke to Sheifa as Eriol and Syaoran listened to her quietly. Sakura was under heavy sedation, so she was unaware of her surrounding or how Syaoran had been holding her hand and caressing it with his thumb. Tomoyo glared at how Syaoran was holding Sakura but a little tug at her waist, made her eyes turn and looked at Eriol who shook his head as he whispered in her ear, "Let him be. I hate to say this but I told you so."

Tomoyo harrumphed and folded her arms under her chest, obviously sulking. Eriol turned her around and hugged her, trying to make her less sulky.

"I still hate him and obviously Sakura doesn't have any feeling for him," she whispered and snuggled her head under Eriol's neck. Eriol put his hands on her cheeks and turned her face up, looking him in the eyes. Eriol smirked and raised his brow, asking without word, "Did you actually believe that?'

"Okay, fine. You win, hotshot," Tomoyo grumbled. Eriol chuckled and gave her a kiss on the cheek as a reward for admitting the truth.

"Hey, how did you know she's here?" Tomoyo looked at Syaoran who still did not move from his chair. Syaoran just sat there, looking a bit dejected with Sakura that stayed so still, not moving.

"I believe he just ignored me, Eriol. Your best friend has no manners and here I thought, he's a ladies' man," Tomoyo chuckled darkly with amusement tinged in her voice.

"Tomoyo, stop it. This is not you. Where's that usually sweet girl that can't get mad at people even if she wants to and always smiling lovingly at me?" Eriol asked as Tomoyo sighed deeply. That was not her, definitely. But the gossip she heard this morning really made her mad with the guy and Eriol got tangled in her anger that was supposedly directed to the guy sitting in melancholia in front of her as if he deserved to be there. Syaoran and the person sitting on that chair is the same person that made Sakura so angry that she slapped him hard. The same person that made Sakura that was usually quiet and never tried to get any attention, burst in anger. Unless she got to the bottom of the matter, she won't rest. Seeing him there was not helping her calm down.

"I'm sorry, Eriol. It just that I can't help it when Sakura hide things from me and I really hate it when I hear it from somebody else especially if it got to do with your best friend. He's bad influence, I tell you," Tomoyo tugged at Eriol's shirt, trying to emphasize her worry and warn her lover. Eriol understood her worries but Syaoran had always been there for him. Eriol knew the real Syaoran better than the fan girls that never seem to let him be himself. The role he played at the campus was not the real Syaoran. Eriol, Touya and Takashi knew that. If he, of all people, left Syaoran on his own, who knew what he would have become.

"We have to give him time," Eriol said and was about to hug Tomoyo again when the door burst open and four elegant ladies came into the room, looking at the girl on the bed.

"Where's the doctor?" "Is she okay?" "What had happened?" "What the hell happened to my little sister?" All four questions came simultaneously from the four ladies who looked quite frantic when their eyes were all at Sakura who still did not come around.

Tomoyo looked at the ladies, not sure to answer which first. Eriol looked at them and bowed to show respect.

Sheifa bowed back at him and asked what she wanted to know, "Where's the doctor?" She knew what had happened but she wanted the doctor to be there to assure her little sister's health.

"The doctor isn't here. When we arrived, she's already in this room. I'll ask the nurse to bring the doctor," Eriol explained and walked out the door to do what he said he would do, leaving the stressed siblings in the room.

"Is she okay?" Feimei asked, looking straight at Tomoyo, who nodded to assure her. Fanren walked towards the bed and caressed her sister's face, just to make sure she was real. This was not a dream. She was really in that accident.

"What had happened?" Fuutie seemed a bit more frantic compared to the others, as she was the last to know about her accident. She rushed to the hospital without knowing all the details.

"I'm not sure what had happened but her car lost control and crashed into a tree," Tomoyo answered, unsurely.

"Did someone try to kill her again?" Fuutie asked and sighed harshly, thinking the unthinkable.

"Who are you?" a voice was heard and everyone turned their eyes to the owner of the voice. Fanren finally realized there was a boy sitting beside Sakura's bed, holding her hand nonetheless. When they arrived at the room, their main concern was of Sakura that they did not even notice the boy sitting stoically on the chair, completely silent and in trance. He did not notice them arriving or talking in the room, as much as them.

The boy did not even turn his eyes to acknowledge them and that really pissed off Fanren. Feimei looked at Tomoyo, asking with her eyes, "He's Kinomoto Syaoran."

Sheifa scrutinized him up and down but the way he perched on his chair made her believed her personal conviction that the guy had feelings for her sister was true. There was no denying it. Fanren was fuming when the guy ignored her completely. The eldest sister was not used to people ignoring her and being ignored by the person that had bullied her little sister – not that Sakura told her, but she had her way – had totally made her incandescent with rage.

Fuutie was a bit clueless about the boy, so seeing Fanren's rage had totally startled her. She walked to the boy and patted her hand on his shoulder to get his attention. He flinched a bit, totally shocked to feel a hand on his shoulder.

"Welcome back to Earth, astronomer," Fanren said while Syaoran looked around, freaking a bit when he realized that he was surrounded by five women. Two with apparent dislike on their faces, two with totally indifferent faces and a knowing smile plastered on a face he did not recognize.

"Erm.. I'm sorry. I totally blanked out just now. Did you all just arrive?" Syaoran trying to converse with the ladies, no – women, his nervousness was uncalled for.

"What are you doing here?" Fanren's voice still roared with anger. She was like a lion protecting her child and Syaoran was the hyena, trying to feast on her cub. Syaoran just looked at her, speechless with the anger that she had shown towards him. Did he ever do anything to her? And for god's sake, he did not even know the woman. Tomoyo shrugged at him with her sweet smile when he turned to her for an explanation. Oh, boy, he knew that smile meant evil, pure evil. How could Eriol say that his soon-to-be fiancée was an innocent beautiful woman. Beautiful, maybe. Innocent? Not a chance, man. You're totally whipped.

"Fanren-nee, you scaring the boy," Fuutie frowned at her abnormal hostile behavior.

Sheifa smiled and bowed at the boy, "I'm Li Sheifa and this is Fanren, Fuutie and Feimei. We're Sakura's sister. Nice to meet you." Fanren scoffed at them and rolled her eyes in disbelief. Before Syaoran got to say or do anything, Eriol came in but stopped abruptly in front of the door, the tension sipping into his skin.

"What's wrong? Have she wake up?" Eriol turned his eyes to each person in the room but all just shook their heads, "So, why the tension?" Eriol was going to get it. Syaoran thought that Eriol would break the tension when he came in but how wrong could he be? The usually wise man was being stupid by asking the obvious dumb question. Tomoyo knew Eriol did that on purpose. Being his girlfriend for five years gave her the advantage to see through even the subtle smile on his face. He was being mean and she was so going to reward him for playing with Syaoran's uneasiness.

Eriol turned back and looked out of the door with a smirk plastered on his face, subtly of course. He then moved aside to let someone in, wearing a white coat with a stethoscope inside one of his pockets. Definitely the doctor, "What are you doing here?"

Fanren looked at him incredulously, "Visiting my sister, don't you see the resemblance?"

"I'm not talking to you," the doctor said harshly and looked directly at Syaoran who sighed and rubbed his chin with annoyance apparent on his face. He did not only get hostility from her family, not that he just realized that. Well, seeing his brother in the hospital was really unexpected. Syaoran thought Yukito was in charge of her since he had called Yukito to get her room's number. Now the mystery was solved, no more questions on how he got there first without going to the counter first.

"I'll explain later. Maybe you should get to your patient first," Syaoran ruffled his hair and moved from the bed, quickly giving him space to examine his patient.

"Oh, God! She's that kicking monster! How could I not recognize her? I'm so stupid," Touya said and looked at Syaoran, which in turn, looked away from his brother, who obviously unaware of the glares penetrating his back.

"Well, if you think you're stupid enough, maybe we could find another doctor to examine our sister. You seem inadequate to be a professional doctor anyway. Oh, not that we wanted to offend you," Fanren looked at his name tag, "Kinomoto sensei."

Touya glared at Fanren, blood boiling at her words but stayed silent. He had already been warned by his authority to stop provoking the patients and anyone that annoyed the hell out of him when he was in the hospital. He may be the best doctor in the hospital, but he could get transferred to some remote place if the authority finally had it with him. He could not do that when he was still under the impression that his 20-years-old little brother needed him.

"Are you somehow related? Ah! I can see the resemblance," Fanren provoked him and turned to grimace at Syaoran. Feimei nudged her waist to make Fanren stop but only fuelled her up, "Don't nudge me. I'm not letting him insult Sakura like that. Stupid doctor, don't know his own place."

Sheifa glared at Fanren, saying with her eyes that mother will be informed about this that totally shut Fanren up, "I'm sorry, Kinomoto-san for my sister's outburst. As much as you love your brother, we too love our little sister that we would be offended if we hear an insult from that said doctor that's supposedly treat her back to health. We might question your credibility. I'm not implying anything but a doctor that can't draw a line between his job and personal life really make us wonder. No offense though, I'm just stating my opinion." Sheifa smiled sweetly as Fanren, Tomoyo and Eriol tried to stifle their amusement. Sheifa may be the youngest compared to the other three but her wordplay really amazed them. Fanren was a little bit hot-headed and can never take insults especially when it was directed to Sakura. Fuutie was more level-headed compared to Fanren and usually analyzed everything before she said anything. Feimei was a little bit on the quiet line but boy, you did not, I repeat, you did not want to make her mad. She went from passive and calm to ballistic and aggressive in one second. Sheifa, on the other hand, was partially all of them. Her sweet smile and innocent exterior could totally fool you. One part that they had in common was that they cared and spoiled Sakura rotten – not that Sakura like the way she was treated by her sisters. Insulting Sakura was like insulting them and Touya just got what he deserved.

Though it was amusing to see Touya speechless and resolved to only glaring at the women, this needed to stop. As if on cue, Sakura grunted and tried to move her aching body. The drug had finally worn off. Touya turned his eyes to the patient and waited for her to adjust to her surroundings.

Syaoran gripped his knuckles tightly; tried to stop himself from running to her bed, just to be the first one she saw when she woke up but to no vain. With three knights by her side and a big stubborn wall that could not be overcome any time soon, he had to give up – reluctantly, nonetheless. Tomoyo saw his turmoil but said anything. As much as he had stricken Sakura, Tomoyo wanted him to feel what Sakura had felt all those years he played pranks on her.

"Am I in hell?" Sakura mumbled when she opened her eyes and saw Touya right in front of her. Her sisters looked at each other, completely did not know what to say.

"No, you're in heaven and I'm the archangel, Mikael," Touya said sarcastically.

"Well, if you think I'm going to believe you, then you must be stupid. You must be a devil in disguise or else, you won't be stupid enough to parade that stupid face that made my day hell just yesterday," Sakura grimaced and tried to turn on her side but couldn't with her leg hang up like that. Syaoran could not help but smiled at her antics. She really was one of a kind.

"I see, she's totally fine except for the bandaged head and fracture that will heal in five months. If she can converse like that, she would be alright. I'll examine you now," even if Touya had a really tough time with her yesterday, he would never jeopardize his title as a doctor. They all sighed in relief even after Touya had insulted Sakura. A doctor's word of okay was all they needed to be sure that Sakura was alright – even if he was a jerk.

"Well, I'll let you if you promise you don't make my pain worse. You may have a grudge on me but don't take it out on me when I'm vulnerable," Sakura chattered, completely unaware that she was talking too much. Maybe the drug was not completely worn off. Her sisters and Tomoyo weren't in shock as they had already been used to Sakura chattered non-stop but the guys really were in shock to hear Sakura talked that much. She was usually a girl of few words. Amusement was an understatement at that moment. To see a different side of her like this made his heart flutter a bit but he said nothing. She had not realized he was there and was afraid of her reaction.

After Touya had examined her, he left the family but warned Sakura to get a good rest which was returned with a glare and a curt nod. He was about to walk out of the room when Sakura called him, "Hey, doc!"

Touya turned and glared at her, not amused with her indignant voice, "What now?"

"Take him out with you. Please help yourself out of the door, Kinomoto," Sakura hissed at him when she realized Syaoran was leaning on the wall with Eriol when Tomoyo moved to look at her better. The accident had really opened her eyes. She needed to stop thinking about him and move on with her life. He would keep playing pranks on her just like yesterday. Her trust was finally put in a metal box, signed and sealed with multiple layers of locks.

Syaoran sighed and knew Sakura wouldn't believe him even if he said otherwise. She was still distraught. He knew she won't listen to a word he said. He knew what her look said, 'Don't come close, don't hurt me.'

He had to let her go – for that day. He would have to come again later. He had to give her time to mend her heart and how much he wished he could mend that broken heart; he knew he could not do it when she was building walls up around her heart. Not a chance today.

"I'm sorry," Syaoran sighed and walked out of the door with Touya following him, "She's not worth it, Syaoran. There much better women out there."

Syaoran looked at his brother incredulously. That really shut him up. Syaoran quickly walked out of the hospital, leaving behind a very distraught girl, worried brother and friend and possibly five very happy women. Possibly.

All these untenable situations with Sakura, her sisters and his brother needed to be stopped. He could not go on like this. Not when he had realized the meaning of having her in his life. Not anymore.

Author's Note: Only 8 pages... sorry... Hope you like though.. read and review... they feed me hope... =)