Chapter 16 (the real one!)

Aki-kun

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"I take it that that didn't go quite as well as expected…" Eriol commented as Syaoran finished groaning.

"She has a bloody boyfriend…" Syaoran whispered.

"WHAT! Well, maybe it's just nothing…" replied Eriol.

"How can you say it's nothing! She's over me!" Syaoran choked out. "I mean, she has a boyfriend! A bloody, sodding boyfriend!"

"Since when did you become English?" Eriol asked.

Syaoran gave him a glare.

"Not the right time right now…" Syaoran growled.

"I got that…" Eriol said nervously not liking the glare at all. "So, what's his name?"

"Aki something…" Syaoran mumbled.

"Hey, that's like Akito!" Eriol brought up.

Syaoran straightened up. "You don't think that it's Akito, do you?"

Eriol shook his head, "I hope not…" Eriol sighed and continued, "We're going to have to get you out of here."

"We? Aren't you a little young to already have mind problems?" Syaoran asked after he gave Eriol a tired look.

"Me, myself and I," Eriol replied.

Syaoran groaned.

"Come on!" Eriol pulled Syaoran up with both hands, "we'll go to Tomoyo's, ne?"

Syaoran groaned again.

"COME ON!" Eriol shouted at him furiously, "Tomoyo and I'll go something that you'll really like, okay?"

"Fine," Syaoran groaned.

"You have got to get the hell out of here. Once you do, you'll feel a hell of a lot better," Eriol promised as they walked out the door.

Syaoran could only groan in reply.

Tomoyo's House… (Close to dinner time)

"Sakura has a boyfriend!" Tomoyo asked very surprised, "she never mentioned that to me… are you sure?"

"Well, she told me herself, unless she was lying…" Syaoran replied and stopped, "wait, she was lying! That's got to be it! She was lying!"

"I don't think she would be lying…" Eriol said. Tomoyo glared at Eriol, and Eriol added, "But that's just me, my opinions don't really count…"

"Look, it's going to be alright," Tomoyo comforted.

"How?" Syaoran asked.

"We're going to help you!" Tomoyo announced.

"We are?" Eriol asked. Tomoyo nodded.

"What? About what?" Syaoran asked, "Help me what?"

"We're going to help you get Sakura back to you?"

"Honto ne!" exclaimed Syaoran.

"Excuse me, we?" Eriol interrupted.

"yes, we," Tomoyo went up close to Eriol's face and made Bambi eyes, "you will help?" and followed with a evil glare, "right! Eriol-chan,"

"s-sure," replied Eriol and muttered, "Not like I have much of a choice anyways…"

"Arigatou!" cried Syaoran gratefully.

"Just do it right this time…" Eriol replied with Tomoyo nodding at the same time.

They talked for another thirty minutes about how to get Sakura back to Syaoran. But so far, they kept on leading themselves into dead ends or things that was not possible in human nature. At the end, they agreed first on figuring what kind of guy Aki is.

"Well, thanks for everything, but I think I'm going to get going, I'm getting hungry," Syaoran said standing up.

"Why don't you stay over for dinner?" Tomoyo suggested standing up.

"I wouldn't want to intrude," Syaoran replied.

"Come on, you won't be intruding," urged Eriol, also standing up and putting his hand around Tomoyo's waist.

"We're having dumplings," Tomoyo broached smiling.

"Okay, I'll stay," Syaoran said, "only if you have dumplings though, I've really had a knack for dumplings this week,"

Tomoyo smiled, "okay, I'll go make them right now," she gave Eriol a gentle kiss on the mouth and walked into the kitchen.

"I'll go help her," Eriol said and followed her into the kitchen. Syaoran nodded.

"Okay, I don't think I locked my car properly, I'll go re-lock it again!" Syaoran said as Eriol followed.

"Okay!" Eriol replied.

Syaoran walked to the door and opened the door. Sakura was standing there taking off her shoes but didn't notice Syaoran.

"Hey Tomoyo, didn't expect you to be here, my date was a pain in the –" Sakura looked up and stared at Syaoran.

"w-what?" Sakura managed to choke out after a few minutes.

"Hullo Sakura," Syaoran said.

"Hey Sakura-chan, is this your home? It's very nice," a man with dark brown hair and brown eyes walked behind Sakura.

"Li Syaoran," Syaoran introduced.

"Mika Aki," Aki replied.

"Mika-san, hajimemashite," choked out Syaoran forcefully. 'so Sakura wasn't lying after all…he's really a real person…well, at least it's not Akito… wait, if it was Akito, I'd probably have a better chance of winning her back…damn…'

"Aki, please," Aki replied.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Sakura finally managed to choke out.

"Sakura-chan, konbanwa," Eriol greeted smiling. "We just invited Syaoran for dinner; I hope you don't mind…"

"I actually do," Sakura said.

"Blunt," Syaoran coughed so that only Eriol could comprehend what he had just said. Aki gave Syaoran a funny look and said, "Are you alright?"

"Lovely," Syaoran replied.

Eriol twitched when he finally saw what Aki looked like. The resemblance between the two was astonishing. They were almost identical except that Syaoran was more built and a centimeter taller than Aki.

"Hiiragizawa Eriol, hajimemashite, please call me Eriol," Eriol said.

"Mika Aki, hajimemashite, please call me Aki," replied Aki smiling shaking Eriol's hand.

"Anyways, I guess Aki-kun and I'll just eat out," Sakura interrupted.

"No, you wouldn't want to hurt Tomoyo's feelings, would you?" Eriol asked. Sakura thought for a moment and asked, "What is she making?"

"Dumplings,"

Sakura thought for a moment and finally agreed.

"Great, then it's settled," replied Eriol.

"Okay, the dumplings will be ready in about five minutes," Tomoyo said walking towards everyone but not noticing Sakura or Aki. She looked up and said, "Sakura! When did you get back? I didn't see you, we're having dumplings. Didn't you say you were having a penchant for them today?" Tomoyo turned and looked at Aki. Her eye twitched just the same as Eriol's noticing the resemblance. Although she had to note that somehow, Syaoran was cuter and Sakura looked so much nicer with Syaoran than with this man.

"Oh, Mika Aki, please call me Aki," Aki held out his hand.

"Daidouji Tomoyo, you can call me Tomoyo," Tomoyo said as she shook his hand.

"Okay, we're going to watch TV," Sakura said, taking Aki's hand and leading him in front of the television.

As Sakura and Aki were leaving, Eriol and Tomoyo pulled Syaoran into the kitchen.

"What a bastard…" Syaoran muttered. The kitchen led to the living room so they could see Sakura and Aki sitting there.

"You seriously don't see the similarity?" Eriol burst out after a few seconds as Syaoran was glaring icily at Aki.

"What similarity?" Syaoran asked, "The only similarity I see with that…that…bozo is having the same girlfriend in a lifetime."

"You really don't see it?" Eriol questioned curiously.

"See what! I mean seriously, look at his messy hair, hasn't he ever heard of a comb or something? I mean, come on, has he ever combed his hair before!" Syaoran muttered.

"Does that really, really bother you?" Eriol asked dryly noting for the thousandth time Syaoran's messy hair.

Syaoran ran his hand through his hair making it a little messier, "uh, yes, it does," Syaoran said as Tomoyo stifled a giggle.

"I sure don't see what she sees in that boozer…" Syaoran muttered.

"Me neither," Eriol and Tomoyo said simultaneously.

"Anyways, I'm going to go check on the dumplings, they should be about ready right now," Tomoyo said giving Eriol a kiss on the lips and walked to the kitchen.

Dinner…

"So, where did you meet Aki-san?" Tomoyo decided to ask after a few minutes.

"Oh, uh, actually, I met him at the mall," Sakura explained as she swallowed her dumpling, "it was all by accident too,"

"Hmm, so what do you do Aki-san?" Eriol decided to ask.

"I'm a manager of a company," Aki replied. "This is delicious by-the-way,"

"Thank you," Tomoyo replied. "Syaoran's one of the vice presidents of the Li-Corp,"

"That's nice…" Aki replied nervously.

"So, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?" Eriol asked.

"No, I don't, I'm actually 24," Aki replied.

"Syaoran's 21," Tomoyo shot back.

"That's also nice…" Aki replied.

This is how the whole dinner went, Tomoyo and Eriol asking repeated questions and Aki answering them nervously.

"I see," Tomoyo said after Aki described his childhood.

"Tomoyo! What's up with all these questions!" Sakura interrupted Tomoyo and Eriol before either one of them could ask another question.

Tomoyo shrugged, "I just wanted to know him better, don't you think?"

Later…

/Ring Ring/

Aki picked up his cell phone, "oi, hai, hai, hai, I'm getting it done, yes, don't worry! Where am I? Places! Okay, okay, I'll get it done! That's what you're paying me for! I got it! Sure, okay, fine, fine, I'll be there soon, goodbye,"

Aki stood up and said to Sakura, "I have to go, this was really great, we should do this some other time, I'll call you," he smiled, leaned over and kissed Sakura on the cheek before Syaoran could stop him.

"And, it was really nice meeting you guys," Aki forced out.

"Yep, ja," Syaoran said icily. Tomoyo and Eriol gave nods of understanding.

"Ja," Aki replied and closed the door not noticing Syaoran glaring furiously at him.

"Well thanks for dinner," Sakura said right after Aki closed the door. She was totally ignoring Syaoran and continued. "I'll be in my room," she started towards her room and added, "ja ne, Tomoyo-chan, Eriol-kun……Li…"

"I'll go follow her," Tomoyo said after a few minutes later. Eriol nodded.

"I'm going to go, thanks for dinner," Syaoran said dully after Tomoyo left.

"You still have hope, I mean a lot of hope," Eriol said.

"What do you mean?" Syaoran asked.

"Well, for starters, she doesn't look at Aki-kun like when she looks at you," Eriol explained, "she's still in love with you, her eyes still show it. If you don't give up at winning Sakura back, she will come back to you. Remember, time heals everything."

"I won't," Syaoran nodded and walked out the door.

Tomoyo and Sakura

When Tomoyo came into Sakura's room, Sakura had just gotten out of the shower. She was wearing a long grey shirt with a bunny on its sleeve.

"Hey," Sakura greeted.

"Hey, how are you?" Tomoyo asked sitting on Sakura's bed.

"Fine…"

"Stop lying," Tomoyo suddenly snapped, "tell me, do you like Aki?"

"He's nice…" Sakura said.

"Sakura…nice doesn't cut it,"

Sakura didn't respond.

"Sakura!"

"Fine! Aki's nice and all, but I'm just not attracted to him…" Sakura replied.

"So what are you going to do?" Tomoyo asked.

"I don't know…I mean he was the one that asked me out and didn't even answer to my response." Sakura explained.

"What was your response?" Tomoyo asked.

"I said no, but he still took me out and told me that he really, really liked me…" Sakura said. Tomoyo finally understood why Sakura went out with Aki; it was because she didn't want to hurt him. Tomoyo sighed silently.

"I guess I could break up with him, but…I really don't want to hurt him, I mean he's really nice. Besides, it almost killed me breaking up with Syaoran," Sakura said instantly becoming quiet after she brought up Syaoran.

Tomoyo nodded.

"Do you love him?" Tomoyo asked.

"Aki-kun? Iie," Sakura replied.

Tomoyo shook her head. "Syaoran,"

Sakura looked up at Tomoyo, took a deep breath and whispered.

"Yes,"

Finally done! I hope you guys like it! I'm sorry it was such a short chapter! I'll try and make the next one longer!

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