Hey all. Chapter 14 is here already so have fun reading. I apologize for the previous chapter coz' it seemed so dull and boring. To tell you the truth, this story is almost coming to its end already. Be sure not to miss Chapter 15 coz you'll surely regret if you missed it. But it's not the final chapter, just things got more complicated in there, I think. And as promised in the previous chapter, I'll reply all your questions and comments right now. Have fun reading the replies as much as I had and still enjoyed reading and smiling, laughing as well, at your comments.
lhaine07 - Thanks for the compliment! I know the scence under the cherry blossom tree was romantic and I imagined myself could had been there either. Actually, I got the idea for Chapter 13 when I was still sitting for my examination. I finished the test too soon and I got bored. I didn't dare to turn my head around coz' I'll be suspected trying to copy during exam. So what I did was to stare at the bare white wall and dreaming. Bad habit huh? Well, it was damned bored and I got tired scribbling on my paper then rubbing them off again, waiting as time passing by like a snail. While I was day dreaming, I imagined of that scene Syaoran and Sakura under the tree but haven't come to Shinna's scene yet. After that, I almost giggled when I got that idea. Dear, I hope no one was watching me at that time coz' my seat was at the first front! Otherwise, I can't imagine what were they thinking.(sigh)
rosedreamer101 - Haha! It's so funny reading yours and MlleShadow's comments! You pitied Shinna but MlleShadow, in my opinion, doesn't give a damn about her at all! Lol!
Nightmares of Love - Glad you liked the previous two chapters. I'm looking foward for your opinion on this one too. And I hope you'll find more cute chapters in here.(smile)
Teruna Hime - Your request is granted. Kei won't be bothering Sakura, but... other person will. Hehe..
XxSakura-HimexX - Ya! Syaoran will be with Sakura. That's the one and most important event in the story. Don't worry. Unless death, there's nothing that will separate them.
SnowCharms - Hmm... I think you'll know whether Shinna's going for Kei or Syaoran in this chapter. Guess it.
Star02 - I don't like sad stuffs either but I don't think there'll be all those happy scenes in this story. So hold you heart and don't let it jump out especially in my coming chapters! I can't gurantee your life when you're reading them so secure you heart my dear!
mammie-noodlez - Great work? I'm jumping on my feet! That's such a sweet compliment especially when I'm just a poor armatur, well, I think I am.
Raunzy - Well Raunzy, after reading chapter 15which will be coming after this one, you'll guess whether Sakura will live to go back to Japan after the holiday. I'm not sure if she could survive...well, the story is still in progress anyway so I'll let you guys decide after I put in Chapter 15.If you're confused to this reply, you'll understand when you read Chapter 15.
chelsea34 - Things will be getting more interesting in Chapter 15. I'm totally positive. I'm the author anyway, lol.
AngelEmCuti - You're the one with positive comments all the time I see. Glad you don't have a negative one to issue them on me!
MlleShadow - All of them are 17, except Shana who is 14, Kei;15 and Meiling;18. Come on, can't you get rid of that evil thoughts of Shinna.(a/n: I'm sorry Shinna but MlleShadow is totally against you. There's nothing I could do to clean your name since it was already blacklisted by well, you-know-who) Lol.
vixiewixie - My, don't get too excited. I don't want to be chased by you!
Gabriella Mychelle - It's my pleasure to become your friend Mychelle. Anyway, do you have any shorter names so I can save my time typing it? Lol.
Cherry Akira Li - Jeez, your laughing and cursing at the same time. I wonder why.
Pipi-chan - Yeah. It was really sorry for Shinna. You should tell that to MlleShadow who thinks she's evil! Lol.
DiamondRose3 - Well, then from now on, you should expect the unexpected coz' there's plenty of unexpected scenes coming up now, especially in Chapter 15, I think. Open your eyes wide while reading but keep them in your head. We don't want anyone to have their eyes popping out of their heads while reading. I can't bare to take the blame...
Chapter 14
Beautiful Roses
"Aaahh!" Sakura screamed as a splash of cold water landed on her face. "Syaoran!" She looked annoyingly at the person who wet her face, cupped an amount of water in her hands and threw it directly towards him. Seeing the water attack from the auburn-haired girl, he blocked with his arms, letting the water splashed on his body instead of his face.
"Missed me," he teased. Leaning down, he opened his palms wide in the stream and splashed her again but this time, her body became the target. She squealed, half laughing, when the water hit her abdomen lightly.
"They make a really cute couple, don't you think so?" Kei stated as he climbed on the rock near the stream Shinna was sitting on. He sat himself exactly beside her, feeling the smoothness of her creamy skin when he with no intent rubbed his elbow against hers.
Shocked, she tore her gaze away from the couple and turned her head quickly to the side. Her wandering violet eyes captured a reflection of a pair of mesmerizing crimson eyes in them. Colour washed up her cheeks. She promptly turned her head away from him; her heart throbbing restlessly as if she had ran miles away.
"I- I didn't hear you coming," she almost stammered, feeling a little shudder of nervousness from the inside of her.
She pulled her legs closer to her chest, resting her chin on her knee as her eyes continued watching the two figures playing in the stream with the water level only below their knees, splashing water towards each other without interest. She would had enjoyed watching them a moment ago but now, her thoughts were distracted away by an unfamiliar lusty feeling within her.
He caught her face was flushing naturally with red. Couldn't help himself from being satisfied, he laughed, please with what he saw. She turned her head towards him; confusion was the perfect word to describe her face at that moment. "Nothing," he turned the laughs into soft chuckles as his gaze slowly fell on he ankle. Sudden memories flash back in his mind.
Flashback
"Hey, Kei! I heard you've dumped Chiharu. Why is that so?" asked a silver-haired guy in an interrogative tone of voice. His silverfish eyes sparkled with curiosity. (a/n: Chiharu Mihara in my CCS version is not Sakura's classmate)
However, his dear friend was uninterested to buy any attention to his question. Instead of listening to him, he turned a deaf ear, his crimson eyes were tied to a figure of a young girl walking towards their direction distance ahead, watching as the end of her dress fluttered in the night breeze like a goddess.
Yukito cleared his throat, trying to get his friend answering his question. When Kei was still ignoring him, he started again. "I mean she's a hot cheerleader, and kind as well, and- Hey, where're you going?" (a/n: Yukito Tsukishiro in this CCS version does not know Sakura. The same thing goes with her)
"You're dumb Yuki," Takashi Yamazaki coldly stated. Ignoring Yukito, he followed Kei steadily from behind who was dashing towards the girl he noticed Kei was staring at since the beginning. (a/n: Takashi Yamazaki in here also has no connection with either Syaoran or Sakura. Allover, Chiharu, Yukito and Takashi are connected to only Kei)
"If I'm dumb, then you're a gay!" he said, half annoyed, half joking and when both of them didn't seem to hear him, he shut his mouth and followed from behind, finally noticed the reason of their ignorance.
"Could this night gets any worst?!" she cursed softly under her breathes, rubbing her swollen ankle after she had carelessly put her shoe in a hole and stumbled on the pathway of the park. Why am I so upset and jealous? He's just accompanying her, that's all! Even if he's already hers, so what?! We've broke a long time ago! Shinna, scrub your head off him! She shook her head angrily, blaming herself for letting him interrupting her thoughts. But then, she called him Syaoran instead of his surname. That's so sweet! She thought again, admiring and feeling jealous at the same time. (a/n: This situation in from Chapter 10)
"You okay?" he leaned down and knelt on one knee, thinking he might be able to lend a help to the mystery girl.
She raised her head up in surprise, didn't notice that there were other people in the park that she thought at first was empty. Oh, God. Thank you. I've just embarrassed myself by stumbling here in front of these guys. She sighed, annoyed at herself for being clumsy.
Her exquisite violet eyes instantly captured his lonely crimsons, melting his arrogant heart and creating an unfamiliar thud in it. Her cheeks were like petals of roses, smooth, red, and her wet lips as if were inviting him to touch their softness with the gentlest pressure.
"Nothing for your concern." Even when she replied him in a harsh tone, he couldn't imagine the sweetness and melodious of her goddess voice. The untied raven hair of hers that fall freely, reaching her waist urging him to brush his gentle fingers through them. He was completely lost in her presence, whose name was waiting for him to reveal.
"I see you want to be left unbothered. Unfortunately, your situation bothered me and I don't see there's a need for you to push my help aside apart from knowing that I'm a guy and a complete stranger to you. Besides, I don't make it a habit of leaving someone in need especially someone who is weak and helpless," he stated clearly. "Like you."
Whoa, Kei. If you're trying to insult her despite her stubbornness, you did a great job! And if you're trying to get her feeling insulted, you're about to reach that goal too. Yukito nearly admired, admitting the fact that his friend was best in both entertaining and annoying people. Takashi paid no interest at all.
Her eyes grew wider and she could almost swear there was a tiny flame burning in both her cheeks and ears. Weak! Helpless! She repeated those words in annoyed amusement; disbelieveable and unforgivable both escaped form her mouth soundlessly. Li will never call me that! No guy will ever call me that!
"You are so- ouch!" she yelped, forgetting the pain in her swollen ankle when she tried to stand up, loosing her balance and unconsciously fell forward onto a hard chest with her eyes shut.
"Are you going to continue where you've left?" Kei teased, referring to her unfinished sentence. He looked down at her, feeling the coldness of her tiny hands seeking for support on his chest.
Heating herself for falling towards him as if proving that she was weak and helpless like he had mentioned, she promptly jerked away from him, shrugging off his hands from her arms that gave her support. Doing so, she almost lost her balance again but he was quick to grab her wrist, preventing her from embarrassing herself for the second time.
"Let her go!" That was when Sakura came and misinterpreted everything.
End of Flashback
"Haha!" he heard Syaoran laughing and when he saw what he was laughing at, he consciously folowwed him. Shinna too was chuckling softly. Sakura always looks cute even when she was acting silly or doing stupid stuffs. She saw that now.
"It's not funny!" Sakura cried out childishly, annoyed at those two guys. She was dipping herself in the stream , well, not actually dipping herself but her situation was almost like that. A while ago, she was trying to catch a tiny silver fish circling her in the water but when she leaned down to catch it, a bullfrog out of nowhere leaped forward. Alarmed by the ugliness of the creature that was about to mark its footprints on her pretty face, she jerked backwards, unable to keep herself balanced and splash! She was lying flat on her bottom, her jeans were wet and if she had knew this would've happened, she wouldn't consider of folding the end of her jeans upwards to her knees' level, thinking that they would not get wet when she landed her feet in the stream.
"Syaoraaan!" she whined, faking an angry, babyish look at him as she held her arms in the air.
Understanding what she meant, he walked towards her, smiling his charming smile. As he was about to lean down to carry her, she kicked his shin from the side with a smirk; hard enough to cause him fall on his back. He gave out a soft groan, barely audible to them.
"Haha!" Sakura laughed. Syaoran rose from his back and sat in the water with his legs crossed, pretended as if he was annoyed but as he caught her laughing, her emerald eyes sparkling with joy, he couldn't think of anything except saying to himself, "Damn but she's so cute!"
"Oh, that must had been hurt," she teased, chuckling happily.
He thought he was going to splash her on the face but when he cupped his hand with water, he caught something else in it. Something with slippery and soft skin, something that will absolutely make her screaming mad. He smirked.
"Hey, Sakura. Catch." He threw the creature to her direction. Reflexively, her hands went to catch the 'thing' he was throwing. When the creature landed on her palms, her eyes blinking blankly at it but soon later, the expression on her face started to change and she screamed on top of her lungs, throwing away the creature she first had on her palms she wasn't sure to where.
Syaoran laughed hysterically. "That was the prettiest bullfrog I ever gave you!"
"Oh yea? Pretty this!" Sakura jerked forward, pushing him to his back and sat herself on top of him, tickling him with her tiny fingers.
"Sakura stop! I'm sorry! I won't do it anymore!" he pleaded, laughing as a reflexive of her tickling him until tears came out of his eyes.
"No way! I'm just warming up!" she stopped for a while to let him take his breath and after he did, she started to tickle him again, laughing like a winner.
"I can't stand it anymore! I'm gonna dieee!" he laughed even harder, rolling himself from one side to the other, causing her to even more want to tickle him.
"No way they're having fun without us," Kei complained. Her violet eyes just wondered as the figure beside her stood up, jumped down the rock and landed directly into the stream, sending the sound of water splashing into her ears. He slowly turned towards her, his hand inviting hers to receive it. "Come with me," he smiled, his eyes meeting hers.
All of a sudden, her heart started to thump nervously and colour washed her cheeks. "I- I…" she stammered. The words were as if stuck in her throat, trying to escape with an unsuccessful effort. It was normal for her to be shy towards a guy she had just to get know but loosing her words to a guy, that was almost ridiculous! What is the matter with me?! Her heart cried out in confusion.
"Don't like water?" she snapped out at his words, merely shaking her head. His eyes searching for an answer from hers.
"I just get cold easily," she said honestly. Even a though, naughty, hyperactive girl like Sakura could fall sick when exposed to a cold surrounding for a long period, what more to say of her.
"Because of that?" he almost laughed again. "Don't worry. I'll warm you up if you get cold."
Huh? As always, he puzzled her without giving answers or explanation. Was that a joke? She couldn't tell. But she could feel when he grab her wrist and pulled her from her sitting spot with almost no effort.
"Wait!" she screamed out and the last thing she saw before closing her eyes, they both fell into the stream, purposely done by him but without force because she wasn't ready for his action.
When she opened her eyes again, he was laughing merrily beneath her, his arms gripping tight around her body. "Nice landing," he chuckled. If it weren't for the warmth of his breath that touched her skin, she wouldn't notice that their faces were just inches from each other!
"How old are you actually?" Why and when that question did come across her mind, she didn't know but it just slipped from her mouth. She thought she'd surprise him by that sudden silly question but instead of answering her, he replied her with another question.
"Does that matter?" he consciously reached his fingers towards the strands of her hair that fell on her face, gently brushing them aside. She showed not protest.
"You're right," she smiled, agreeing with him. "Still, you have to pay for making me wet." She pulled herself backwards, not wanting to continue their body contact a while longer and rose up. Looking down at him, she lent him a hand and he took it with pleasure.
"Care you tell me?" he asked, smiling and she smirked.
Rustling wind swept away the flower petals from their branches, lifted them soundlessly in the air and finally letting them falling into the endless flow of the stream that drifted the pink petals weightlessly on top of the blue sparkling water.
"Achoo!" Sakura sneezed, her nose turning into pinkish but the word cold didn't exactly suit her at that moment. She had finished 'torturing' her boyfriend by now, just dipping herself in the water as if there was nothing else better to do.
"Cold?" Concern was written on Syaoran's face. Sitting facing her, he touched her cheeks with the tenderness of his hands, however, didn't notice they were turning red. For years she had known him but until now that she'd finally discovered the other part of him, the love and passion that he had never showed before.
"Hey, loverbirds!"
The sudden booming voice of Kei almost caused her leaping in surprise, her heart felt as if it was going to burst. Her eyes searching wildly around, looking for the figure she called by the name 'interrupter', and she did. Standing a few meters away from their opposite direction was Kei and Shinna, grinning widely with their hands waving at them and the other hidden at their backs.
"What?" She regretted for wasting her time asking rather than making a run for it.
"MUD ATTACK!!" Both Kei and Shinna declared, sending their mud flying high in the air, aiming directly towards Sakura's horrified face. She blocked with her arms in defense, waiting for the mud to stain her but they never came. She wondered, relaxing her arms when she finally realized that she was completely overshadowed by a figure.
"Aw, that does hurt" Syaoran winced as he used his back to Sakura's defense.
"I told you he was going to do that," Shinna said brilliantly, proving to Kei that she was correct.
"How was I to know? I thought he'll push her instead of being the shield himself!" Kei uttered disbelievingly.
"As promised, you'll do the cooking tonight instead of me," she happily announced. Kei sighed when Sakura's booming voice filled his ear canals all of a sudden, almost breaking his nerve impulses.
"YOU TWO OVER THERE!" She shouted from their opposite direction. They turned towards her, blinking blankly. "WHO SAID YOU CAN USE MY BOYFRIEND AS A BET AND WITHOUT MY PERMISSION?!"
Both Kei and Shinna turned to look at each other, probably thinking what had made her gone mad. (a/n: Yeah, right. As if throwing mud into somebody else's boyfriend is very natural)
"Sorry, Saku! We'll make sure to ask for your permission the next time we're gonna do it again!" Kei replied from downstream. (a/n: Sakura instantly did the anime fall thing, Syaoran has a big sighing mark on his temple)
"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" Sakura shouted childishly. She reached for the mud from the bank and threw them wildly towards Kei and Shinna. "Take this and this, and this!" she continuously threw the mud blindly in the air, causing Kei and Shinna dodging the mud with little success. Syaoran sweat dropped.
"Now I'm really pissed off," Shinna said with a mud splattered on her face. "It's a mud war," she declared and with that, she grabbed a handful of mud in her hands and sent them flying upstream towards Sakura, unfortunately, landed on top of Syaoran instead. "Ooops…" she clasped her mouth, grinning sheepishly.
"I don't make it a habit of attacking girls but in this case, I think I can make an excuse to it," Syaoran grinned, threw a handful of mud downstream, watching as it was about to land directly at…one moment…ok, there.
"OUCH! HEY, WHO DID THAT?!" Whoops...
"My beautiful hair…" Kei sobbed. "You're too cruel, cousin Li! I'm gonna get you!"
"Now I've see why you had brought her here," Eriol said as he silently observing Tomoyo video tapping the four kid-acting-like figures in the stream from the bank, playing with mud without realizing they were being tapped.
"Cool idea, huh?" Tomoyo grinned brightly. It was not as if her ideas had ever failed before. They always turned out to be total success.
"I wonder, where's Shana and Meiling?" he asked, his spectacles flashed with a glimpse of reflected sunlight.
"In the wood nearby, collecting firewood to lit our campsite tonight," Tomoyo answered and he nodded before started to ask again. "Why them?" Tomoyo turned to look at him. "Because my dear, they volunteered for it," she said softly. "I see," he nodded again.
"What lovely couples," Tomoyo admired, smiling widely as she continued tapping them in her tape. Eriol's face suddenly seemed to brighten up, his sapphire eyes sparkled strangely.
"Put that down," he ordered, snatching the video tape from Tomoyo's hand.
"Eri! I was-" Tomoyo wanted to protest but Eriol had grab her wrist and pulled her towards the stream, grinning widely. "No, no, Eri! I don't wanna go in there! Eriiii!"
SPLASH!
-End of Chapter 14-
a/n : I swear myself I won't skip to reply to comments in each chapters. I took a really long time to recollect the previous comments from Chapter 12 and 13 and typed them all. But to tell you the truth, I was really enjoying replying you guys! Feels like I can share my opinions and thoughts through your comments and replies. Keep doing so and I'll do the best to complete this chapter! See ya!