Disclaimer: I don't own Card Captor Sakura. Duh. :) I got the idea of this story at the play I read, written by Juan Ekis.
Summary: It's been a tradition in their group that a guy and a girl would be locked up in a room for 7 days. This year, it's Sakura and Syaoran's turn. Syaoran suggests that they play Twenty Questions. A fanfic full of playfulness, bickering, friendship, kisses and maybe even…LOVE? SxS. R&R please!
TWENTY QUESTIONS
Chapter 1: VICTIMS OF FATE?
It was already night time; and in one of the rooms of a beach resort…
"Come on, Syaoran. Don't be such a gentleman there. You make me feel so darn guilty. We're friends for crying out loud! Come on and you can sleep here in the bed next to me." A beautiful girl with a shoulder-length auburn hair said.
Sakura Kinomoto was her name, a 22 year-old commercial model. She was currently fixing the bed, and was wearing a white Abercrombie halter-top that has a v-neckline, which showed a little of her cleavage, pink unzipped Juicy jacket, and a Guess jeans shorts that rests about 5 inches above her knee and showed off her smooth and slender legs.
"It's totally ok, Sakura. I'm fine here." A guy with an amber and mysterious eyes named Li Syaoran said, then looked at the gorgeous figure in front of him and met the girl's ever-mesmerizing emerald orbs. Syaoran was placing a blanket on the floor for him to lie on. He was wearing a black Tommy Hilfiger shirt that was slightly fit to show his well-fit body, then wore a green Billabong board shorts with a black and white lining on it. At the age of 20, he just recently graduated from college.
"Don't be such a wuss, Syaoran. It's as if I'll rape you or something. The bed is big enough for the both of us." Sakura said as she giggled. Silence followed.
Syaoran raised his eyebrow. "Are you sure?" he asked.
"You won't try to molest me now, will you?" she said, teasing Syaoran.
"Are you mad, woman?" he smirked.
"If you want, let's just split the bed and make the blanket as the divider."
"Good idea."
They attached the blanket at the ceiling to divide the bed into two. They settled down on their respective spots. Syaoran brought out his book entitled "Artemis Fowl" by Eion Colfer. Then Sakura opened the boom box and played Japanese Zen music while doing the zazen.
"Do you mind?" Sakura asked Syaoran. She wanted to confirm that the music she was playing wasn't distracting or annoying him or anything.
"No, go ahead. I'm just reading anyway." The music was calming his nerves, how could he ask her to stop it?
Sakura is doing the zazen while Syaoran is reading. Both of them can't concentrate on what they are doing. Then Sakura turned off the CD player, and said "I can't believe our friends."
"I know." Syaoran responded, emphasizing on the word know, then rolled his eyes.
"They could've just made this joke, no offense -" She paused and looked at Syaoran's shadow and continued, "to those who just entered our clique - like Naoko for example. Or to those who just - oh, yeah, I completely forgot. You just graduated. Congrats!" and made her ever-cheerful and sincere smile.
Though Syaoran could not see it, he knows that Sakura is smiling. Syaoran froze at the thought. Then he awoke from his split-second daydream and then was able to stutter the word "Thanks."
"So… what're your plans?" Sakura asked, trying hard to make a decent conversation.
"Well, as you know, my mom would like me to handle our company, because I'm the heir." He replied, while making a face when he said the word heir.
Sakura giggled.
"But I'm planning to tell her that I want to take the researcher job that a financial firm is offering me. I want a simple life, you know?" he continued.
"Wow. I know what you mean. You are certainly in demand." Sakura laughed.
"Not really..." Syaoran smirked at his friend's cockiness and asked, "uhm, who the hell invented this tradition anyway?"
Sakura laughed at the question, "You won't believe it."
He looked at her shadow and asked his wildest guess, "You?"
"How should I know that I would also be victimized by this tradition?!" she was now laughing hysterically, and somehow, it lightened the heavy air that was suffocating her in that room.
"So whatever came to your mind and started it?" Syaoran asked, still can't believe at the fact that his friend was the one behind this stupid - or so he thought - tradition.
"You weren't in the group by that time yet. You were probably still a freshman then. It's completely random, really. It's just that I wanted to help Eriol coz he has a crush on Tomoyo, and he was dumb enough to be all too shy around her. The first time that the group came here, I said that we should make a tradition. We will raffle the names of the guys and girls. Whoever gets picked, the two of them should stay in a room for a week. And then, let fate make its twist. We'll see what will happen. But of course, knowing me, I cheated during that time. The names in the raffle were purely Tomoyo and Eriol." She was now laughing so hard, that she was even banging her hand on her lap.
Syaoran was shocked at first. He didn't know that Sakura could be one hell of a matchmaker, and now, Eriol and Tomoyo are great-engaged couples.
Syaoran laughed along with her and exclaimed, "You, my friend, are one hell of a matchmaker."
"That's why I'm here, baby. Well, now I know karmas are for real..."
"So in our case, did they cheat? Or was it just really plain lottery?" wait, did that question come out right?
Sakura stopped, and then asked in a teasing way, "Which of the two would you like?"
"I don't know. I think that one of our friends is pulling a prank on us…" He stated, as if not catching the joke tone in Sakura's voice.
"Well excuuuuse me. We are both victims here. I don't see any reason why they would choose us to be the victims this year, unless…" Sakura stopped, and then started to snicker.
"Unless…?" Syaoran raised one of his eyebrows, impatient for Sakura to finish the sentence.
"Unless you have a crush on ME that I don't know yet THEY do." Sakura exclaimed and bursted out laughing.
"HAH! Excuze moi, mademoiselle, maybe YOU have the hots for ME." Syaoran laughed at his joke too.
"The success rate of this tradition is 100 so far." Sakura said, as if trying to change the subject.
"I know. Every pair that stepped out of this room became couples! And not to mention long-lasting relationships! I mean, they're still together right now! This was my second time here but the victims then were Mizuki and your brother Touya. I could still remember the smug look on your brother's face when the week finished."
Sakura laughs along with him, and also happy at the fact that she doesn't need to worry about her brother being way too protective towards her as his brother already has a wife to take care of his own.
"And last year were Chiharu and Yamazaki. They're getting married when again? I think it would be on June." Sakura said.
'What do you expect? You would lock a guy and a girl in one room for a week; it's impossible that nothing would happen to them!"
"That was exactly my point." She said, and then smiled mockingly.
"Err... uhm... and what if there comes an accident?" Syaoran asked, looking at the ceiling.
"What do you mean accident?"
"Oh, come on! Don't act dumb… you know what I mean!" he said while throwing his hands on air.
Sakura shoves the divider out of the way to look at Syaoran. "What? Sex? What if they have SEX? You're hilarious, Syaoran. You can't say the word." She laughed at the look of Syaoran's face.
"Can't say what?" he asked, really not getting what Sakura is trying to say.
"Sex!" Sakura said out loud for the word to echo in the room.
"Hah!" Syaoran smirked.
"Oh yeah! Then why won't you say it!" She exclaimed as she raised her eyebrow, tentatively mocking Syaoran.
"You look stupid. Stop it."
"Shit, Syaoran. You're already a college graduate for crying out loud and you can't say the word sex!" said out loud while laughing at him.
"Excuse me?" he said while raising one of his eyebrows.
Sakura, still laughing, said, "Then say it then: Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex!"
"You sound like a darn spoiled brat, Sakura." he replied, still trying his best to avoid the topic.
"You used to call me onee-san when you were in your first year, and not to mention you were one hell of a SNOB!"
Sakura, a junior, is the head cheerleader. And being the captain, it is her duty to man the cheerleading booth for the up-comers, most especially the freshmen, who want to try out for the squad.
She was wearing their cheerleading uniform: a long-sleeved, cropped jersey top that's showing her flat stomach and a matching plaid skirt that rests 4 inches above her knee. The uniform was black and white. But the uniform's main theme is color green - which was her favorite part of their uniform. It brought out the beautiful emerald color of her eyes.
"Hey, you better cheer up, the freshmen are coming. And you know that we have to welcome them with our brightest smiles." a girl with amethyst eyes and long black silky hair said while putting her arm on her friend's shoulder.
"Ok Tomoyo! Don't worry about me!" Sakura replied, brushing off her problems and brought out her cheerful smile.
Tomoyo smiled at her then went back to fixing her hair.
Then the freshmen came.
The cheerleading squad shouted, "WELCOME FROSHIES! Try out for our cheerleading squad and show your school spirit! Woohoo!"
Then they made their infamous stunt – they are, after all, the cheerleading champion 3 years in a row, ever since Sakura became the head captain.
"Hey, look at that hottie over there." A girl with hair tied up in two buns said.
"Hmm? Where, Mei Ling? All I see are drooling freshmen." Sakura said, as soon as she heard the word 'hottie.'
"Over there! The guy with a chocolate-colored hair. And whoa, are those amber eyes I see? Man, he's so McDreamy!" A girl named Chiharu said excitedly.
Sakura giggled. "I love it when you say those words: McDreamy and McSteamy."
Tomoyo seem to have found the guy they were referring to. "Is he a freshman too? I haven't seen him around. Or maybe he's just a transferee. He sure doesn't look like a freshman to me."
"Hmm… yeah, maybe he's a transferee." Sakura said, finally caught of 'McDreamy.'
"Go and find out, Sakura! Use your ever-popular charms!" Mei Ling said excitedly. Sakura were the most popular, prettiest, and no to mention THE cheerleading captain in school. No sane man could ever resist her charms.
Her friends cheered for her shouting, "Woot-woot!"
"All right, all right, minions." Sakura giggled and continued, "I'll give him the welcome he deserves" she winks at them then starts to walk up to the guy.
The squad roared saying, "Go Sakura!"
Sakura approached her target…
'Whoa, so Mei Ling was really right. He really is one hell of a McDreamy!' she said to herself, almost giggled at the word McDreamy, and then stared at the most handsome creature she's ever seen.
"Hi there! I'm Kinomoto Sakura, the head captain of the cheerleading squad. Would you like to join our squad? Are you a transferee here? You're from what university?" she smiled her infamous and trademark smiles that every guy wants to catch a glimpse of.
Syaoran looked up and saw the beautiful creature right in front of him. "Uhm…hi? No, thank you. I should get going now. I'm late for my class. And no, I'm still a freshman. Ja ne!" He walked away, and waved his hand at the gorgeous girl.
Sakura was dumbfounded. No man has ever walked away from her not drooling - most certainly when she was wearing her cheerleading uniform. She then went back to her clique, disappointed that the guy didn't even give her his name.
Confused, Tomoyo can't help but say, "What the hell! What happened there?!"
"That was weird. He MUST be gay." Mei Ling said, devastated.
"Probably! Oh well, here comes my boyfriend. You guys better not mention it to him." Sakura said as she giggled.
"Whatever. Man, that hot guy is gay! Talk about injustice in this damn world!" Mei Ling exclaimed as she threw her hands in the air, while walking away.
Sakura then looked at the freshman's direction. Only to see that the guy was holding another girl's hand, and then she kindly whispered, "That's one lucky girl…"
"Well, I just thought you noticed, but let me tell you again: I already graduated, onee-san." he said, brushing off Sakura's mock.
Silence overcame them yet again, and Syaoran noticed that Sakura was caught up in her own world, probably thinking of a way out, he thought. Syaoran broke off the silence, saying, "Hmm… I wonder if we're gonna last a week..."
Sakura finally snapped out of her daydream and teased, "Why…? Don't yah like me? Hmm…?" She then leaned closer to him while she had one of her eyebrows raised.
Syaoran just kept quiet. Sakura stopped her mock then continued, "We're gonna survive this one."
"What makes you so sure?" he questioned.
"No offense, Syaoran. I honestly find you very attractive but I have no time for this. I'm pretty sure that you know that I just broke up with someone, right?" she blurted out.
Syaoran paused for a while, and then stated, "Same here."
Sakura was rather confused with what he said, then teased him saying, "Same here what? That you find me attractive or you don't have the time for this?" then she laughed.
Syaoran didn't answer, and there was an awkward silence overcoming them yet again. Sakura then turned on the CD player and continued her zazen. Syaoran tried to read again, and then kept the book. He was not in the mood of reading anymore. He went to the refrigerator and opened it.
"Hah! Perfect! Red Wine! How very conducive." He said sarcastically while fetching the red wine.
Sakura looked at here Syaoran was and asked, "Are there any chips there?"
"Oh, hallelujah! There are foods. I thought they were going to starve as here." Syaoran said as he heaved a sigh of relief.
Sakura giggled then turned off the CD player and took the snacks on top of the refrigerator.
Sakura looked at him for a while then said, "Since we're gonna be stuck with each other for 7 days 24/7, we might as well make the best out of it, don't you agree? Let's just have fun!"
Syaoran stared at her for a while, and then replied, "What do you mean?"
"Get the wine; let's have a drink! There are only 146 hours left and we're gonna be the first failure of this tradition. Woohoo!"
Syaoran smiled at her, and then said, "Let's drink to that!"
He got the wine and poured some on the two glasses he fetched.
Then he continued to say, "I mean, when they chose Chiharu and Yamasaki, I completely understand that. Most certainly when it came to Eriol and Tomoyo. I mean, it's just like helping them admit that they like each other. But to us…"
"Our friends are soooo weird, ne?" Sakura smiled.
"To our friends and our weird traditions!" Syaoran said and held up his glass.
Sakura followed and lifted the glass too, then said, "To us, the first failure of this tradition!"
They then toasted their glasses and drank.
A/N: Edited, January 10, 2007