Tattooed

Summary: "I've lost everything to drugs, do you know that?" Sakura told him with tears in her eyes. "The funny thing is I've never even touched a drug in my life and yet it destroyed me. It took everything." She turned to face him then. "Please, don't let it take you away from me. I won't be able to handle it, not this time, not again." S x S.

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This chapter was originally over two thousand words... I made it two parts. This is the first.

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xiv.

Here we are we've just begun

And after all this time our time has come

- Here I Am/Bryan Adams

It was early in the morning on a bright and boring Thursday when Sakura felt something wet and tickly on her face. She pushed it away in her sleep, noting the way the sunlight nudged her eyes. It was morning already?

A bark woke her with a scream.

Then came the hysterical laughing!

"Touya!" she screamed as she threw a pillow at him. "What the hell is that?" she asked, pointing at the dog. Touya snickered and took the canine in his arms, leash dangling.

"This," he paused to pet the dog. "Is Kero Beros,"

Sakura rolled her eyes. "Kero Beros?"

"I know, right? He's such a cool dog. Potty trained and everything!"

"I didn't know you got a dog. What'd Yukito say?" Sakura asked as she got out of bed, suddenly wishing she wore pants to bed. How was she supposed to know Touya would arrive uninvited halfway across the world?

"He's not ours, Sakura." Yukito came to give her a hug before kissing her cheek. Sakura smiled.

"Hey, Yukito,"

"Oh, he gets a hello! What about your own flesh and blood huh?"

"You woke me up with a dog!" Sakura reminded as she stood with her hand around Yukito's waist. Sakura huffed and looked away.

"Not just any dog," Yukito stated as he brought Kero Beros... what a name... to her. Sakura conceded and took the dog in her arms. "He's yours!"

"What?" suddenly she wanted to drop the dog.

"Yup, potty trained and everything!" Touya reminded with a sneaky glimmer in his eyes.

Sakura looked unsurely at the dog.

"Hey, Kero," she tried his name out, just for kicks. The dog barked.

"See, loves you already." Touya said with a pat to her head. "Animals and monsters get along, who knew,"

Sakura stomped on his foot just before he left.

The dog barked again, as if agreeing.

"What're you guys doing here?" Sakura asked as she walked to the kitchen to make coffee, after setting the dog down and using soap. The dog followed her.

"Toya had to meet a sponsor, and we decided to take the week off."

"Yup, it's been too long since we'd seen you anyway." Touya said to her as he kissed her hair. Sakura rolled her eyes.

"Sometimes he's so nice, I almost fall for it. Bullocks, I say. Utter and complete rubbish," Sakura said disbelievingly in a fake British accent.

"You're right; I just came here for the cold and the rain." Touya said as he went to open the balcony doors. Sakura almost stopped him before stopping short. Yukito looked at her as he mixed his coffee.

"Something wrong?" he asked as Sakura bit her lip.

Touya stood on the balcony now, his hands on the railing. Sakura shook her head.

"Nothing,"

*.*

"You won't believe the cute girl I'm seeing," Tomoyo stated as the four of them played cards.

"Cute? From your Emails I concurred she was sexy, Goddess like." Touya flung a card on the coffee table.

"Well," Tomoyo looked into her cards and spoke, maybe just a little red.

"Aww, Toya, stop playing with the girl. Tell us about her, Tomoyo."

Tomoyo sighed before flinging all her cards on the table and standing to twirl around. Touya and Sakura braced themselves while Yukito smiled.

"I love her, I love her, I love her," she paused to look at them. "I. Love. Her!"

Sakura sighed. She'd heard so much of this over the few weeks that passed by that she was sick of it. Kero barked from his corner near the balcony.

The balcony...

"Sakura?"

"What?"

"I suggested meeting Mei Ling this weekend. I know she doesn't have a shoot scheduled with us," Tomoyo said as she played a card. Sakura nodded.

"Sure,"

"We could go to Tower Heights for dinner? Candlelight, rooftop ambience,"

"Sounds romantic," Yukito said.

"Sounds like PDA." Touya stated with a finger in his mouth.

Sakura nodded. "I second that. These two can't seem to keep their hands off of each other!"

"Ooh, it sounds so good! Let me go make plans!" Tomoyo ran off with her phone, leaving Touya and Yukito with Sakura.

"So, who's the guy?" Touya asked with his eyes closed, startling Sakura.

"What guy? There's no guy." Sakura assured him.

"Come on, Sakura, you're all lovey-dovey with those eyes of yours, you're off in la-la land every chance you get. There's definitely a guy." Touya pointed a finger in her face. "So spill,"

Sakura gulped and looked at Yukito for help. He raised his hands in surrender.

Telling Touya about Syaoran... would be unbelievably—

"I'm back," Tomoyo announced. She picked up her cards and played her turn, effectively ending that conversation.

"Who's this new guy in Sakura's life, Tomoyo?"

"Oh-ho-ho, she told you about him?" Tomoyo asked. Sakura was sweating bullets. This was just not fair.

"Nope, not giving anything up, so you tell us, what's he like?" Touya asked authoritatively.

"How about you see for yourself? He's coming with us for dinner this weekend."

"What?" Sakura exclaimed. Yukito laughed.

"This is going to be one eventful dinner." He said as Touya smiled an evil smile. Tomoyo joined in. Kero barked loudly.

"I'm going to rip him to shreds," Touya said and laughed like a comic book villain. Sakura felt her eyes narrow in embarrassment.

Why couldn't she have a normal family, an ordinary best friend...

Kero came running to jump into her lap.

...and have no dog?

I've been waiting for you
Here I am

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