We Belong

Chapter 4 – Odd Feelings and Sickness

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After what seemed like half an hour of walking, Sakura and Tomoyo finally arrived at home. Meanwhile, the soccer practice at Tomoeda High was just getting hotter and hotter… Syaoran was playing very good today. His kicks were filled with puissance and ire? Eriol watched him from the shed, shaking his head off.

'Sakura…Sakura… Sakura…Why is it that you don't want to be with me?'

The sky darkened earlier. If anyone stared, it'll be like a piece of a dark velvet cloth enveloping the once blue skies and then it began. Droplets of water started pouring like tiny pebbles from the vast gray welkin. With just a blink of an eye, the droplets turned into rapid, hefty and big ones. The thunders started roaring loud and lightning flashed suddenly with great speed. The players of the soccer team hurried to the shed and proceeded to the varsities' locker-room. However, the team's captain and goalie remained running, kicking and playing in the field, visibly taking all the pour-out of the water from the sky.

"Syao-kun! Get out of there now! Practice is over!" Eriol shouted, loud enough for his cousin to hear.

"I'm fine! I wanna practice more… You can leave me now, go home!" Syaoran shouted back, not even taking his gaze out of the ball. He continued running all over the field, his body-soaking wet. His unruly chocolate hair fell attractively on his face, covering his amber orbs. Eriol just flittered his head off, knowing clearly that there's no way he can make his cousin stop. He grabbed his phone from his pocket and pressed the number 3.

"Hello! Sakura speaking!"

"Saks, Eriol here…"

"So, what's with the call Eriol-kun? Need some help with my couz?"

"Nope… I need some help with my couz! Can you pick Syaoran up? The rain is getting heavier, and Syaoran here is soppy wet, still playing on the field, with no plan to stop!" Eriol said exaggerated.

"What the heck does he think is he doing? I'll be there in 5…" Sakura responded nervously. She gently dropped her phone, grabbed her coat and dashed out of her room. The person on the other line just smirked.

"Yes! Another goal, which gives me another point!" Syaoran said simply, his body mildly shivering from the breeze. His teeth were gnashing hardly and his temperature relatively high, making him slower and weaker. The storm was just getting heavier and heavier as each time passes by.

"Syaoran!" A familiar voice echoed in the field. Syaoran looked around everywhere, searching for the one who called his name. As soon as he saw her, he hurriedly ran towards the source of the voice, the voice he used to love? His sight was slightly blurred as he headed directly to where a girl with an umbrella is standing.

"Syaoran! What has gotten into you that you actually did a very foolish thing!" Sakura scolded. She wrapped a towel on his shoulder and she brushed his hair off his face. Syaoran just eyed at her, a smile plastered on his lips.

"Why did you come back here? I'm fine you know. A single storm can't kill me." He muttered proudly, his whole face reddened from the rose of his temperature.

"Syaoran! Stop acting so childish, you're being such an idiot now. Yes it can't kill you but it can harm you! Now get on the car!" Sakura instructed authoritatively as she held Syaoran's hand and dragged him towards the vehicle.

"But, how about my car? I can still drive you know…"

"Your car might be at home by now! Satisfied? Get in! Don't make me push you!" Sakura shrieked irritated. Syaoran gulped and stepped in the car meekly. Sakura got in after him. Soon enough, they left the school.

"Darn Syao! You're extremely hot! Are you okay?" Sakura asked worriedly, her hands rubbing that of Syaoran's. The latter nodded his head in response then he rested his head on Sakura's shoulder.

"I'm… sorry… of what I've told you before… Sorry that I worried you because of my foolishness…" He mumbled weakly. Sakura grinned, leaning her head on top of his and wrapping her arms on his now very hot shoulders.

"You're forgiven… Do you actually think that I can bear being on a fight with my best friend? I don't think so…"

'Yah right… Best friend… Just your best friend…'

Shortly, they've reached their house. Syaoran was immediately brought to his room and soon after he finished his dinner and taken his medicine, he fell fast asleep. He was just so tired and debilitated.

The storm just got much heavier than before. The drops of water were like grains falling on the thick roof that it made clicking sounds. The breeze was relatively cold and it was just the best time to relax.

It took him an hour resting and when he awakened, he found his best friend sitting in his bedside, giggling to herself as she held a cell phone in her hand.

"Saa…ku…"

"Ssshhh… You don't have to say a word… Your fever has cooled down a bit…" Sakura interrupted before he can utter a word---her name. Her eyes were dazzling cleverly as a smirk smeared on her lips. She crawled up in Syaoran's bed and lied next to him, still having that look. Syaoran just watched her confused, since he was too weak to move.

"Sakura, what happened to you? You look so happy and…. weird…" Syaoran mumbled slowly, his brow aroused observantly. Sakura giggled once more, her head now much closer to Syaoran's. She reached for the phone she was previously holding and showed it to him. He gasped.

"Why you tomboy! Did I ever give you the permission to touch or even search my phone!" Syaoran squawked, his cheeks tinted with ten shades of red. He tried to snatch his phone back from Sakura's grip but he was just too enfeebled to reach it from her. Sakura laughed harder.

"Syaoran, what's the matter? You ashamed? Why?" She said teasingly in a playful tone.

"Sakura!"

"Okay, fine, I'll stop… Your fever might stir up… I'm sorry, okay…" She apologized sincerely, but still with a wide grin on her face. Not a teasing grin, but rather, a sweet one. "Well, I just never thought I had this much of pictures in your cell phone that it made a bunch of folders." She smiled cutely at him. Syaoran flushed.

"What's wrong with that? I was just… just taking pic…tures of you, hoping to catch an annoying one that I could show everyone to embarrass you…" He stuttered. Sakura rolled her eyes, still with that smile.

"Oh... I see… Amm… I'm planning to sleep in your room tonight… And so that I can take care of you…" She enunciated, taking her pillows from the chair beside Syaoran's bed and positioning it beside Syaoran's.

"Sakura, you don't have to do that you know… I'm going to be all right… I don't want you to catch a fever too… I don't like it when you're sick." He said worriedly, looking in her eyes seriously. Sakura beamed cutely.

"Syao, you know exactly that I'm much stronger than you, right? I won't catch a fever just with sleeping beside someone who has it…" She muttered proudly. Syaoran just shook his head off with a slight smile.

"If I know… you're just afraid of the roaring thunder and of the flashing lightning…"

Sakura chuckled, looking up the ceiling as if pondering and then she simpered. "Quite."

Syaoran pulled her beside him and then he ruffled her auburn hair. They both laughed.

Sakura turned the lamps off and adjusted her position beside Syaoran. She rested her head on his neck, breathing in his pleasing scent. Her arms snaked around his waist and her leg on top of his steady ones. On the other hand, he could feel her warm breath against his neck as the sweet scent of her hair captivated him. He turned to her and watched her breathing, peacefully sleeping. He smiled to himself as he stared at the very beautiful face of his best friend. He softly kissed her forehead and then he grinned once more, resting his head on top of hers and dozing himself to sleep…

Often times, we fall in love with someone beyond our perceptive. There are these strange feelings within us that we cannot even explain ourselves.

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Author's Notes: Okay, that's chapter 4… A longer one, I think… Heeehh! Thanks for the reviews for the last chapters… you kept me all going… time, time time! Give me more time so I can update this one as soon as I want!

Coming up: Chawpie 5 – Morning Surprises...

+Lady Raiah+