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"Sakura-chan are you alright?" the boy asked worriedly. He touched her forehead and touched his forehead with the other hand, "You aren't sick, so why stare stupidly like that?" he asked teasingly.
Sakura started to blush as she stared at him, directly in the eyes. She tried recalling where she just saw those eyes just now, really her forgetfulness was getting to her nerves, "Hey Syaoran-kun, did we meet about a few minutes ago?" she asked stupidly.
He chuckled, "Of course not, what happened? Had a dream of me lately, well it just proves that I'm the one on your mind," he said confidently as he too blushed realizing that their faces were really near the other's. He moved a bit and sat beside Sakura and relaxed a bit.
"By the way, what are you doing here?" she asked him as she felt surprised seeing him just besides him. "Oni-chan will come early you know," she said tauntingly and giggled a bit.
Syaoran didn't laugh at this matter he was really serious about going there, and he really didn't want to go back to the awful past he and Sakura have gone through. "Sakura-chan I just wanted to go here to make sure of something," he told her forwardly. "I just wanted to ask you if Naomi really told the Principal a made-up story, answer me honestly Sakura," he requested to her.
"What if I said 'yes' who'd you believe me or her?" Sakura turned serious too as she asked him the question.
He couldn't answer the question was just too sudden, "Answer the question first before I answer yours," he said as he started thinking what he'll answer be.
Sakura gave out a sigh, "Really Syaoran-kun, you needn't know," she said as she stood up and was planning to avoid answering his question but Syaoran got grab hold of her hand and stopped her from leaving.
"Sakura-chan I really need to know, it's just I feel so stupid and worthless not knowing anything!" he explained as his voice started to get loud but only by a little. "Please…" he started pleading, "I really want to know."
"I'll answer if you promise to answer my question as well."
He didn't have much time to think, "Yeah I promise."
Sakura sighed, "Yeah she did tell the Principal a made-up story, and I…" she felt dubious if she'd continue but decided not to, because she didn't want him getting worried over her. "Never mind," she continued.
Although it was a bit sudden it looked as though Syaoran was expecting such answer, "Oh is that so, maybe I should go ask her," he said as he was about to stand up.
Sakura stood up as well, "Answer my question first before you leave," she said demandingly.
"I… I…" Syaoran looked for the right words, "I still can't make up my mind, I'm so sorry," as he slowly went towards the room.
"Don't worry, its okay if you tell you believe her more than me," she said disappointedly. "And really, please be honest."
He didn't need time to think; he already got a straight answer although he was feeling a bit uncertain about his answer "She's my girl friend after all…" these were the only words he could utter.
Sakura couldn't answer anything; she knew that that would be his answer, although the whole of her wanted him to tell her that he believed her more. She just fell silent there holding back her tears as he slowly walked away. "I'm sorry for disturbing you," he said as he closed the door behind him.
Tears fell slowly down her soft cheeks, "I hate you baka!" she whispered to herself as she went upstairs in her room.
The car was running slowly and smoothly, "Anything wrong Syaoran-sama?" Wei asked his little master as he noticed that he was lost in deep thoughts.
"It's nothing…" he lied; he couldn't make up a conclusion what Naomi had against Sakura, because honestly he really did trust Sakura more but he lied to her because he thinks that Sakura hates him and nothing would come of his futile attempt to bring back something that he was the one to break.
He stared blankly at the car's window and was still lost in deep thoughts. "Syaoran-sama, it's getting late maybe we should go visit Natsume-san tomorrow in the afternoon?" (Naomi's whole name is Naomi Natsume and Wei calls her Natsume-san because ever since the first day he saw her, he really wasn't really comfortable around her) Wei asked his young master. "And the doctor would probably be back and what would happen if they see Eriol-sama on your bed pretending to be young Syaoran-sama?" he asked him.
"Yeah, guess you're right…" he sighed because uncovering the truth would have to wait another day before he could ask Naomi.
A few minutes passed by and they arrived back at the hospital. Wei helped Syaoran get out of the car, get onto the elevator compartment and walked back towards his room, "Syaoran-sama, why'd you have to push yourself so much for Sakura-sama?" Wei asked intriguingly although his face was straight.
"You already know the answer right?" he asked as they were walking towards his room on the fifth floor.
Wei smiled at him, "I am concluding that you fell in love Sakura-sama once more."
Syaoran smiled at him and answered honestly, "I never did stop," as Syaoran smiled as he recalled some unforgettable memories of him and Sakura back then.
They arrived shortly back at his room; it looked just like how they left it a few minutes ago and there Eriol was lying at the bed covered by the blanket and was acting to be asleep.
"Syaoran-kun it's time for your daily injections," Syaoran said trying to sound like a doctor, and looked like it worked because Eriol twitched a bit. He moved slowly with an evil plan on his mind. "Come on now Syaoran-kun, it won't hurt, just a bit," he said sounding dark and scary.
Eriol couldn't handle it anymore it was just like in a horror movie, but oh well; it'll be Syaoran in trouble if he'd get caught by the doctor, but what the hell, that rather than a deadly injection. He removed the blanket hurriedly, "Sorry doctor, Syaoran told me to…" he stopped as he saw Syaoran's red face because of seeing Eriol get that scared just from a silly little injection.
Syaoran just couldn't stop himself he laughed out loudly and so was Wei, he chuckled a bit but not as exaggerated as Syaoran's. Eriol got grab of the nearest pillow and threw it directly at Syaoran's face, "And I went all the trouble to cover up for you and how are you repaying my kind offer; you scare me with an injection."
He stopped a bit and breathed some, "It's because only little kids get scared of injections," Syaoran said as he sat beside him on the bed.
"Yeah yeah…" Eriol said mockingly. "So how'd it go?" as his turned suddenly changed to a serious one and so did Syaoran's. Wei left the room to give them some privacy and went to buy some snacks for the two.
He sighed a bit, "Well, it didn't go quite well, I had to lie," he said disappointedly.
"To whom?" Eriol asked him straightforwardly.
"To Sakura-chan," he said truthfully as he started having second thoughts. "I know I trust her more than Naomi, but still…" he tried reasoning with himself.
Eriol gave him a friendly pat on the back, "Is this what you really want?" Eriol asked him as he showed concern to his best friend.
"I just want her happiness," he told him whole-heartedly.
He enigmatically smiled at him, "Do you really think that she doesn't love you anymore?"
Now that he mentioned it, he still wasn't sure about that, but her actions didn't seem that she still loves him, or so it seems. "What do you mean?" he asked feeling a bit confused and lost.
Eriol just simply smiled at him, "You just need to find out right? But this one you'll need to do alone. Oh and by the way, how about the little 'challenge' will you tell them that you quit?" he asked him and hoped that his answer would be a 'yes'.
He started to think, he almost forgot about that subject. Will he or will he not tell his friends the whole truth, and how about Naomi, what will happen to them if he'd tell the truth; the sad truth that he loves Sakura more than her even since back then. "Uhmm…" he couldn't make up his mind about that, would he hurt Naomi or hurt himself because what if he'd choose Sakura over Naomi and Sakura really didn't love him, wouldn't that be wasting Naomi's love for him; choose the one who loves you, or the one you love who doesn't seem to love you back? The question never slips out of his head, making him unable to make up his mind.
"You don't need to answer now, I know you need time to think about it, and please…" Eriol said as he stood up, "Please choose what you really want, not the thing that you think is right for a change." Syaoran smiled at him feeling so happy that he had a best friend like him.
"Thank you Eriol-kun," he said gleefully.
He smiled back and was about to leave, "Now that my job's done I need to go home, home works and stuff you know, I'm not some student who can only complain although he stays all day on the comfortable hospital bed," he told him teasingly as he got ready to leave. "See you tomorrow then!"
"Yeah, see you tomorrow," he said as Eriol went out and closed the door behind him.
Syaoran lay back down on his soft bed and started thinking, how does she feel for me anyway? as different things started rambling around his head. Did I really make the right decision? Different questions filled his head. After some time of deep thinking his tiredness came to him; he fell asleep unknowingly with many doubts both in his mind and heart.
"Sakura-chan are you okay?" asked her father worriedly as they were eating dinner and Sakura didn't touch the food on her plate. "You haven't touched your food yet, are you feeling well?" he asked as he placed down his fork.
She used her fork and got some and forcefully ate it, but tried acting normal, "I'm okay oto-san, just a bit tired, I'm just going to excuse myself and go to my room," she stood up and wiped her mouth with the napkin.
Both her brother and father look worried over her condition; there was something wrong about her and both of them noticed it easily. She went slowly upstairs and threw herself to her bed. She wanted to think; think about her feelings and about him. She hated the way he chose Naomi instead of her, but what was she to him anyway? Different thoughts filled her agonized mind and heart. It was as though asking an unanswerable question to another person. What am I to him anyway? This was what circled out through her mind. She felt tired and depressed that night, although she tried fighting her fatigue for her to have more time of thinking she couldn't succeed; she fell asleep as tears fell down slowly from her eyes making her pillow wet from all the tears she cried.
The next morning came and Sakura woke up early, she got up early, took a bath early, and went to school early; she wanted to avoid seeing others as much as possible, so she went to school earlier than usual.
She arrived earlier and changed her shoes, and surely letters came out from her locker and only three letters where inside, now that she saw those letters she forgot to read them all because she was a bit busier than usual. Now that she had enough time, she could read all of them that morning at the school cafeteria where she was asked to help once more.
Passing by empty classrooms on the way to the cafeteria, "Good morning Sakura-chan," greeted the woman responsible for the kitchen; the one she was taking orders from.
"Good morning," she greeted her trying to act normally.
"Oh by the way Sakura-chan, you'll be helping the teachers today, because they asked me to, and tomorrow you'll be back here with me," she explained as Sakura was about to wear her apron and hairnet (Thanks to those who taught me this stuff!) making Sakura stop on her tracks.
Now knowing that she was moved to another school job she asked questions to her, "What do I need to do with the teachers?" she asked frankly.
"I think they need help with the school activity's that coming up, and I think they need someone to help them do this and that, you know" she answered to her as she was cutting vegetables for the cafeteria's menu. "Off you go then, the room is just left from here, and you'll see the faculty room there.
Feeling a bit disappointed she placed back the apron back on the table nearby and went outside the cafeteria. She wasn't so happy about the idea of helping a teacher because teachers tend to be with the students which of course she wants to avoid as much as possible. As she arrived outside she turned left as she was instructed and saw a room just near the cafeteria, the door was slightly open.
She pushed the door slowly and took a look inside, "Excuse me," she said as she was entering, surprisingly she saw a man who was changing his shirt. "Oh sorry," Sakura said as she closed the door hurriedly feeling very much embarrassed about her actions.
Her face was a little red and she was feeling a bit nervous, when the door opened, "Uhm… Sorry about that," said the man who was getting dressed a few moments ago, Sakura looked at him. He was about in his early twenty's and had messy black hair which unexpectedly looked like Syaoran's hair; their only difference is the color. He had crimson eyes but was hiding it behind his round spectacles. "You are Sakura-san right?" he asked followed by a smile. Sakura nodded and still was taken aback that they had such a good-looking janitor on their school. "I'm Yamazaki and I'm a trainee and I'm the one who asked for your assistance," he explained calmly.
Sakura smiled nervously; "Oh…" this was only what she could say as he invited her to come in.
She followed she sat on the chair just nearby, "So sensei, what do you want me to do today?" she asked straightforwardly.
He smiled at her, "Sakura-san I just wanted you to help me with just posting these posters for the annual school activities, and others stuffs too I'll just tell you later after we do all these. Oh and by the way, sorry I didn't notice that the door was open."
Sakura felt stupid, "Sorry sensei, I'm the one who should be sorry I didn't knock on the door," she explained as she stood up and got some of the posters.
"It's okay," he said smilingly, "You're not as bad as I heard you are," as he opened the door and they got out.
She wasn't surprised at this, rumors of her and her so-called horrible acts run around the whole school making her the most girl in school, "What things do you hear about me?" she asked even though she knew the answers.
He sighed a bit, "Well I hear a lot of bad things about you, honestly I can do this all by myself but I heard that you were suspended so I just wanted to check if all the rumors were true, but honestly I don't think they are."
"Thank you…" Sakura whispered to herself as she forced herself not to cry, it was a very rare thing for her to be believed by others, especially strangers even though she wasn't sure if he was honest she really was happy.
"Hmm?" he said as they were walking and posting the posters on the school walls.
She smiled to him, "It's nothing sensei."
They spent that morning posting posters on the whole campus; it was the annual school festivities because on that month it was their foundation day. People looked at her with hatred as she was posting although she ignored them it was hard, especially when you have someone with you and they could make another rumor of flirting and stuff which was really not true but it couldn't be helped because of the judgmental people around her.
She and he talked much about the school and the people in it, the faculty members and the students as well. According to him the rumors goes around the whole school and it was about Sakura and her accused bad deeds, he thinks that way maybe because he haven't seen the pictures of the so-called her lip locked with another boy.
The afternoon passed by and she helped him all throughout the day, he asked her to help him distribute things and stuff to the students which was the worst part of her job, and some other stuffs like cut things for the school's foundation day.
At long last she finished all the things that she was asked to do, "Thank you so much Sakura-san," Yamazaki thanked her openly. The day wasn't as boring and as bad as the one yesterday because maybe of the person with her who kept her company, he often scolds students who start whispering something once they pass by and eyed the students who glared at Sakura.
"Thank you sensei," she said graciously as she went out the room; they were back at the Faculty room and there were about two teachers who were doing something on their own desks. "I had a really great time today!" she said as she waved good bye.
Syaoran was staring at the clock hanged on the wall, it was about time that his classmates were to be dismissed so he asked Wei to pick him up and they will be going to meet Naomi to clear things up; he waited for it all day, it was the hardest part; waiting.
After sometime Wei arrived and asked if it was okay to leave the room without someone to replace Syaoran incase his doctors would come in. "Today I'll be leaving the hospital remember?" Syoaran asked him. Yeah it wasn't the day that the doctors wanted him to leave because he wasn't fully healed yet but his stubbornness won over them, he was allowed to leave two days earlier, he wanted to go back to school so badly that he didn't care if he'd get hurt again, he just wanted and needed to know how was she doing if what she said was true; about Naomi telling a made-up story about that event. By the way, nobody told him about Sakura's suspension because they thought that it would make him worry so they just kept it their secret.
Wei got all Syaoran's belongings and placed them on the car, Syaoran went downstairs on his own because he needed to pay for the hospital expenses.
He and Wei got to the car and went to Naomi's house. It took a while before they could reach there, and when they did Naomi still wasn't at home, so they just waited on the car outside the house.
Minutes passed by and at last they saw Naomi walking home with a guy who apparently was older than her, because the man was her brother; Seiki. They were walking silently and they were talking about something too, Syaoran fully concentrated on wanting to hear their conversation.
"So what are you going to do about Kinomoto?" asked Seiki to Naomi. "Do I still need to kiss her in front of all the students? Although the idea isn't half bad," he said as he chuckled on his own.
Naomi smiled at him, "Yes and do you think she doesn't see my Syaoran-kun anymore?" she asked sweetly as she clung onto his arms, "Oni-chan please make her leave my Syaoran-kun!"
"Alright already but I don't think kissing her would do anything, she won't cooperate," he said disappointedly. "And what did you tell the Principal anyway, I thought I'd be the one in trouble, you made me worry."
"Just changed some strings on the story," as she laughed softly. They were about to approach the car, "Hey Oni-chan who do you think that is?" pointing at the car parked in front of their car.
Syaoran asked Wei to leave just before they see a glimpse of the person inside it; tears slowly fell down Syaoran's cheeks, he needn't to hear her explanation, he'd heard it all and it answered the question, he wasn't crying because of that, he was crying because he doubted Sakura ever since their break-up. He asked Wei to drive to Sakura's house, and so Wei did.
They arrived sometime after at their house, Syaoran got out and knocked on the door. Unfortunately it wasn't Sakura who answer the door, but no other than her borther; Touya. "Where's Sakura-chan?" Syaoran said straightforwardly.
"She's not here," he lied; he still couldn't forgive Syaoran about the past, and what a coincidence it was that they were meeting again. "Why are you looking for her gaki?" he asked frankly.
"None of your business," he said rudely.
"Haven't changed a bit, have you?" he said disappointedly as he sighed, "Stupid little Sakura ever falling in love with you. Oh by the way, what happened yesterday, I know you came here, Sakura only cries because of you and yesterday she cried herself to sleep."
He was surprised to hear that, so she cries over him, maybe she still loves him, maybe there was still a chance for them, or maybe she just cried because he was too harsh on her, anyone would cry if someone told you something like he told her yesterday. "I know she's there, I need to see her," he demanded.
"Don't be too cocky gaki, I don't want you seeing her anymore," he ordered him.
"Don't order me around, I'm not your servant," he said rudely once more, as both his and Touya's temper started to rise.
"Oni-chan who is it?" Sakura said on the other side of the door, as Sakura opened the door and saw that Syaoran was outside and was looking for her.
"Sakura-chan, I need to tell you something," Syaoran said as she saw her behind Touya however he was fully ignored by her and she walked away.
"She doesn't want to see you gaki, go home," he said as he closed the door. Syaoran needed to apologize to her; he needed to ask her if she still loves him, or if she doesn't. He walked away a bit and looked somewhere to climb on to reach Sakura's room. There he saw the vines on the walls of the house and there was the opportunity he'd risk falling just to apologize beside the fact that he still wasn't fully healed yet.
He went to the vines and got grab of it, he took a deep breath and started climbing it without a second thought. It was very hard and some of the vines he grabs were fragile and some break as soon as he puts his weight into it, making it harder. He fell down a few times from it but it didn't stop him, he was determined to see her and talk to her. At last after getting some cuts on his hands and bruises on his body he reached the window, the room was empty both Sakura and Touya were downstairs so he opened the window, good thing it wasn't locked. He went there stealthily and sat on the floor beside Sakura's bed, he breathed heavily because of his tiredness. He shouldn't go down because Touya might see him, so he just waited there.
After a long time of waiting he felt restless and wanted to go down badly but stopped himself from going, he called Wei and told him to go home and he'll just call him again if he'd ask him to fetch him later because he thought that Sakura would go upstairs late. Wei followed and left the house and went back to the Li residence.
He was feeling tired and thirsty as he looked at Sakura's room, it was just as he last saw it, the bed, the sofa, the tables although some things changed, Sakura's pictures with him were removed on the side table besides her bed.
Syaoran started hearing heavy footsteps, he panicked a bit, because Sakura didn't have heavy footsteps, she had light ones so he went to the closet and hid himself there, he didn't fully close the closet door to see a glimpse of who would enter the room.
The foot steps stopped at the door of Sakura's room and it opened slowly, good thing he hid himself there because Touya entered the room. However it wasn't a very lucky day indeed because he was stupid enough to leave the window open. His heart started beating faster and faster, Touya entered the room quietly and looked around the room, he closed the window and started looking around. He noticed the bathroom door open and was about to look at it, looking at the closet door every now and then, the feeling of horror struck Syaoran, it was like in the movies as the killer finds for his victim hiding for his own safety. He pushed the door open and looked inside, nobody was there and he stared at the closet. "Oni-chan phone call!" Sakura shouted from downstairs. He was about to look at the closet, good thing Sakura saved him. He left the room disappointedly, Syaoran started to calm down a bit; he got out the closet his whole body trembling. He remembered the suspense movies he watched about killers and stuff. He sat on the floor again calming himself down and started waiting for Sakura to go back to her room again, it was getting late though because it was already dark outside.
Hey sorry if it was very late, and hope you liked this chapter! Now that Syaoran knows about Naomi's doings what do you think would happen next?! Thank you again for those who read this fic, oh and by the way, read my other story too: "Completely Different People" and tell me what you think! Thank you so much! Reviews please! Marty-kun