If You Love Me

‘If you love me, then you’d do it!’ That was the new phrase for all girlfriends everywhere… except one, Kinomoto Sakura. She refuses to use that line, but why?

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“Takato,” a girl grinned as she latched onto her boyfriend, “if you love me, you’d take me to the mall!”

Her boyfriend, Takato, sighed as he wrapped his arm around her, “Fine—tonight around six, I’ll pick you up?”

“Great! I love you Takato!”

“Love you too Rika.” Her boyfriend said as they walked off.

Kinomoto Sakura shook her head in disgust as she watched the young couple walk off, arm in arm. Her two friends, Mei Lin and Tomoyo stood beside her, staring at what she was staring at. Sakura’s auburn tresses traced her face as she turned around and started to walk away.

“What’s the matter?” Mei Lin said as the three started to walk to the cafeteria. Sakura shrugged. “That’s such a stupid thing to say,” She cleared her throat and made her voice high pitched and giggly, just like the girl that was just there, “Oh Takato!” She shrilled, “Prove to me you love me even if you asked me out and banged me a couple hundred times! Take me to the mall and prove to me you love me because the past fifty times you proved to me you loved me totally fleeted my stupid bird-brained head that is filled with pictures of some hot guy from some stupid television channel!” Sakura growled low, walking even faster.

Tomoyo and Mei Lin exchanged glances. “What’s wrong with that? So she made her boyfriend take her to the mall with a small little line, what’s the problem?” Tomoyo asked.

“Because it’s so stupid. She knows he loves her, and hell if she wants to go to the mall, she has friends! Damn, if he doesn’t want to go and she’s forcing him to, then it proves to me that she doesn’t love him.”

“It’s their relationship; she can say what she wants. Plus, you can’t tell me you’ve never said that to Syaoran.” Mei Lin questioned as she linked arms with her friend. Sakura and Syaoran have been dating for a steady year and a half now and everybody knew that they were going to last. Mei Lin was dating Ryu Ling, Sakura’s childhood friend and Tomoyo was dating Eriol, cousin to both Li Mei Lin and Li Syaoran.

“I never have and I never will.” Sakura said definitely as they walked into the cafeteria and spotted their boyfriends.

“Like I believe that.” Tomoyo rolled her eyes as the girls sat down beside their guys. Syaoran’s head was lying on the table and Sakura sent a questioning look to Eriol, who looked tired, but wasn’t falling asleep like Syaoran.

“What’s up with you guys?” She whispered as she rubbed Syaoran’s back. He relaxed and buried his head further into his hands.

“Up late night to finish our senior’s project.” Eriol yawned. “He stayed up longer and I fell asleep on the couch.”

Sakura winced. “Ouch… you guys started your senior’s project?”

The gang were seniors at Tokyo High and they all had an ISU to do before the end of the semester. Different homerooms started their ISU sooner than others.

“Two weeks ago. I’m telling you,” Eriol yawned before shaking his head, “it’s a bitch. We’ve been working for two weeks straight and we just finished our flash animation last night.”

“Wow, you guy’s had to do a flash animation?” Sakura raised a brow.

“We had a choice but flash was the easiest.” Eriol murmured. Sakura and Tomoyo exchanged glances. “The easiest?” Tomoyo squeaked. Eriol nodded as he pulled out a piece of paper and wrote down a bunch of numbers onto it.

“What’s that?” Ryu asked as he looked over Sakura’s shoulder.

“The code to activate the file that has the flash animation in it. I password protected it last night when Syaoran went to take a shower…at 3am.” Eriol added wryly.

“Oh,” Sakura whispered as she kept on rubbing Syaoran’s back, however, somebody bumped Syaoran accidentally. Syaoran shot awake and the guy turned around, his eyes wide. “Oh shit! I’m so sorry.”

“S’alright man,” Syaoran yawned as he leaned his head on Sakura’s shoulder.

“You okay?” She murmured as she caressed his cheek.

“Fine, you hungry?” He yawned again, taking out his wallet.

“Yeah but I can wait, you want something.” Sakura stood up, taking Syaoran’s wallet.

“No man, I’ll go.” He insisted.

“You sit down and sleep, I’ll get you your food and mine.” She said as she went to grab her purse, however Syaoran grabbed it and smirked, leaning on it to sleep again. “Pillow.”

“Yo, my wallet is in there!” She called.

“Use my money.” He replied, cheekily. Sakura sighed. “Fine, I love you.” She kissed his cheek before going to the lunch line.

Tomoyo looked at Eriol and smiled. “Eriol-kun, I’m starving and I have no lunch.”

“Have some of mine,” Eriol murmured as he shoved his sandwich to her, he was just too tired to eat, but he was writing up his script on a piece of paper for the presentation next period.

“Oh, but I wanted a salad… can you get it for me? Please?” She begged, puppy dog eyes effect being used too, “If you love meeee….” She trailed out. Eriol sighed as he stood up and took out his wallet.

“Garden or Caesar?”

“Caesar please!” Tomoyo smiled as Eriol walked off to the lunch line. Syaoran raised his head and shook his head at Tomoyo. “He’s dead tired Tomoyo, you’re making him go get you lunch?”

Tomoyo frowned. “He can’t be that tired if he can get me lunch.”

“He didn’t have the energy to eat his lunch. He’s an endless pit but he still gets up for you… that’s saying something.” Syaoran shrugged before laying his head back down on Sakura’s purse. Five minutes later, Sakura walked back with a tray full of food. Syaoran’s nose hit the smell of fried noodles and his head shot up, his stomach giving a loud growl.

“Oh my god, I love you.” He said, staring at the food. There were two large cups of coffee for him, a bowl of fried noodles, salad for Sakura, some chicken, shrimp, meatballs and a bit of rice.

“How much was it?” Syaoran said looking at her. Sakura grinned. “I had a twenty in my pocket so you had no money used, dear.”

Syaoran frowned. “Sakura…” he said warningly.

“I wanted to! Now eat, I got you black coffee because I don’t want you falling asleep during your presentation next period.”

Syaoran eyed the second cup, “Who’s that one for?”

“Eriol.” Sakura said, and as if on cue, Eriol walked back with a bowl of salad in his arms.

“Here you go, babe.” He said as he sat back down. Sakura handed him the coffee and smiled. “My treat, you and Syaoran need energy.”

“Thanks so much.” Eriol sighed thankfully as he took a large gulp of the coffee. Tomoyo smiled at Sakura as she started to eat her salad. Syaoran, in two minutes, finished his noodles, rice, meatballs and half his chicken and shrimp. He finished his coffee and lay his head back down on the purse.

“Need anything else?” She whispered.

“No I’m good. Thanks so much.” He murmured kissing her knuckles before snuggling with her hand. She smiled as she leaned on him, slowly eating her salad. Mei Lin pouted and turned to Ryu.

“Ryu… you know Tomoyo has a bash next Saturday right?”

Tomoyo squealed. “Oh yeah! You guys have to come!”

“I’m so sorry babe… I’m working.” Ryu said, his eyes widening. Mei Lin frowned. “Ryu, baby if you love me you’d at least drop me off?”

Ryu twitched. “Mei, I’m working…”

“You work at 7! The party starts at 6:30!” Mei Lin whined.

“Fine, I’ll try.” Ryu sighed as Tomoyo turned to Sakura who was still eating.

“How about you, can you come?”

Sakura shrugged. “Syaoran,” she whispered and he made a grunt, signaling he was awake, “are you gonna go?”

“I’m working with Ryu too next Saturday… but I’ll drop you off if you want.”

“When does shift start?” Sakura whispered.

“Seven, just like Ryu.”

“Then it’s ok. You go to work, I’ll ask Touya to drop me off.” Sakura smiled.

“No, no I’ll take you. It’s okay.” Syaoran said sitting up, leaning back in his chair. Sakura shook her head. “No way, if you even dare come pick me up I’ll be mad. I know it takes you an hour to get there, how is Ryu gonna drop off Mei and get to work within half an hour? You go to work and I’ll ask Onii-chan?”

“And if Touya won’t take you?” Tomoyo asked.

“Then I won’t go. It’s just a bash Tomoyo-chan, I’m not risking Syaoran’s job. I can come over another time.” Sakura smiled.

“Sakura! Just use the damn line and you can get here!” Mei Lin whined.

“No.” Sakura said darkly as she stood up and threw her salad out. “I’m going to go study for the Calc test last period. Bye guys.” She kissed Syaoran lightly on the lips before waking off.

Syaoran turned to Mei Lin. “What line?” He asked.

“The, if you love me then you’d do it, line.” Mei Lin sighed, “That girl never uses it! She was so psyched about the party but now it’s the, if Syaoran is busy then it doesn’t matter. I’m telling you Syaoran, you’re killing her here! She went to get her own food when you could’ve gotten it for her.” His cousin accused.

“I was tired here!” He rebutted.

“Yeah, so was I.” Eriol smirked.

Syaoran growled. “I’m gonna go sleep in the library where it’s quiet and where Sakura is.”

“Awwww,” The group teased as he walked off. Ryu turned to the remaining three and raised a brow. “You guy’s are right, Sakura’s the only girl who hasn’t used the prove me you love me trick yet.”

“She’s too pure. She’ll give in.” Mei Lin shrugged as Eriol fell asleep and Ryu continued listening to his MP3 player.

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Sakura murmured a bunch of numbers are she did a full page of calculations, frowning as she went to check the answer at the back of the textbook and saw she was three numbers off.

“How did that happen?” She whispered as she when through her entire calculations and twitched when she found out she wrote the number two instead of the number three.

“Oh god,” She groaned as she erased the bottom portion of the calculations and redid it with the number three instead of two. She sighed in content as she saw her perfectly done calculations. She wrote the written response and moved onto the next question on the sheet. She hardly wrote down the number of the question when she felt air whiz by her. She looked up and saw Syaoran sitting opposite of her, his head on the desk.

“Hey sweetheart,” She greeted, “why you here?”

“They were being bastards back in the cafeteria. I’m gonna get some sleep in here while you study, okay?” He looked at her, fatigue washing over his eyes. Sakura smiled as she threw a water bottle at him.

“Enjoy your nap.” She laughed as he drank some water and went to sleep, again on Sakura’s purse. Sakura giggled softly as she continued with her question, quite glad with herself that she mastered the art of mathematics, even though she despised it with all her soul plus two.

She hummed a soft tune and a smile curved on Syaoran’s mouth as he actually did fall into a light slumber. Sakura groaned as she stretched back. She reached for her water bottle and eased it out of Syaoran’s hand before drinking down a quarter of the liquid. She wiped her mouth dry before resting her head on the desk, feeling a headache coming on because of all the numbers and signs.

‘Stupid calc,’ she thought restlessly as she sat up and looked around the library. She saw Sara and Jason, a freshman couple sitting a few desks away from her. She smiled, remembering her and Syaoran being just friends back in their freshman year.

“Jason, help me study! Please?” Sara asked, begging softly. Sakura frowned, knowing what was coming next. She groaned inwardly as Jason sent an apologetic look to Sara.

“I have to study for my Geography test… I’ll help you as soon as I’m done… promise?”

Sara sniffled. “If you love me, Jason, you’d help me.”

Jason frowned as he closed his books. “What do you need help with?”

Sara squealed softly as she hugged him. “Language,” she finally replied as they got to work.

“Idiots,” Sakura murmured as she glanced at her boyfriend. She smiled softly as she went to move some hair off his forehead.

“You’re so cute,” She giggled softly as she when went to withdraw her hand, but Syaoran reached up and caught it.

“You’re cuter.” He smiled as he sat up, yawning.

Sakura blushed heavily as his thumb rubbed circles on her palm. “You not asleep?” She asked softly.

“Slept for a few minutes before waking up thanks to loud couple over yonder.” Syaoran yawned loudly as he sat up, releasing Sakura’s hand.

“Oh you mean missy who won’t let her boyfriend study?”

Syaoran chuckled. “Yeah, them.”

Sakura shook her head. “I hate it, when girls go if you love me. Seems so shallow.”

Syaoran raised a brow. “So are you saying you’d never ask me that?”

“Why should I?” Sakura shot back at him, leaning in on her seat.

“So you’re saying,” Syaoran was getting interested because he too cannot recall a time his girlfriend asked him to prove his love for her, “that even if you wanted something badly, and I do mean badly, you wouldn’t say, Syaoran if you love me…?”

Sakura snorted. “Yeah right, if I want something that badly I’d just bug the heck out of Onii-chan if you say no.”

“But what if it’s something your brother can’t get you… like a necklace that breaks into two pieces, one for me and one for you?”

“If it’s something like that I can easily afford it.” Sakura shot back.

“What if you forgot your credit card?”

“I’d ask for them to put it on hold so I can go get my card and pay for it.” Sakura smirked at Syaoran. “Face it love, I’m never gonna ask you to prove your love for me because it’s a shallow way to prove to yourself that your man loves you.”

“You don’t want that satisfaction? To know that I love you enough to sacrifice… let’s say my geography test?”

“I know you love me enough to sacrifice a geography test,” Sakura rolled her eyes, “all I have to do is say, Syaoran I don’t get this, and you’d probably give up a million dollars to help me.”

Syaoran snorted. “A million to help you?”

Sakura slapped him on the arm. “You know you would.”

“Yeah,” Syaoran grinned, showing his fangs, “I probably would.”

Sakura giggled. “Point proven. My view is why would you ask me out if you didn’t hold some sort of feelings for me? If it wasn’t meant to be it won’t happen and I won’t force it to happen because that’s playing with the path of life and all those other philosophical things I believe in.”

“Deep,” Syaoran laughed before yawning again, “shit I’m so tired! Can’t even get some sleep.”

“Sleep during Languages,” Sakura said, “you get all that stuff anyways.”

“Can’t,” Syaoran yawned loudly, “I have to stay up during that class to memorize my script for the presentation last period.”

Sakura looked at him with sympathy. “You need to start your work faster.”

“What do you mean?” Syaoran raised a brow. “Eriol made it late because Tomoyo pulled an if you love me trip.”

“See how dangerous they are,” Sakura rolled her eyes. She glanced at the clock over the door and sighed. “Five minutes before period ends, wanna go?”

“Too tired.” Syaoran moaned.

Sakura packed all her things and slung her backpack over her shoulder before helping Syaoran up. “You’re soo tired you can’t even walk.” She commented.

“So?” he whined and Sakura giggled. “Let’s go.”

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School ended regularly that day and Syaoran and Eriol slugged out of their class, sighing with relief.

“How was it?” Sakura asked, hugging him.

“Happy, happy, joy, joy.” Syaoran said sarcastically. “The class loved the flash and I think our presentation went by fairly well. Was too tired to really give a care.”

“Aww, you’ll do well.” Sakura said hugging him. Sakura and Syaoran bade the others farewell as they walked to Syaoran’s car.

“Let me drive,” She persisted as she got the keys from his hands. “You’re too tired. You sleep, I’ll take you home, okay?”

“What about you?” He asked.

“Don’t worry about me.” She said as he nodded, getting into the car. As soon as his seatbelt was buckled, he fell asleep. Sakura smiled softly at him, finding his sleeping figure quite cute. Instead of driving him home, she drove to the local park and parked the car. She saw a few kids playing on the swings and smiled, wanting to have a family one day. She glanced at Syaoran who slept soundly and she got her homework out.

She started to do her homework… she had enough to keep her company.

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At exactly 8:37pm, Syaoran woke up with a start and saw Sakura packing some things into her bag, then noticed they were in his car still.

“Hey,” he said, a fresh look in his eyes, “why are we here?”

“Thought I’d let you sleep,” Sakura smiled, “finished all my homework though. If I took you home, you would’ve done something that didn’t let you sleep.”

“What about my homework?” Syaoran groaned. “I have enough to pull another all nighter.”

“No,” Sakura laughed, “I did yours too because I was bored after finishing mine. Our homework is done.”

“WHAT?” Syaoran said, quite surprised.

“Yeah, you wanna go home now?” Sakura asked cheekily. Syaoran cupped her face in his hands and pressed his lips against hers. She gave herself into him and they continued to kiss, a heat of passion until they needed air. Syaoran pulled back as Sakura panted.

“You’re the best girl a guy can ask for,” he murmured. Sakura smiled as she leaned forward to kiss him again. They kissed for a few seconds before Syaoran pulled back.

“I wanna hear you say it,” He murmured.

“Ehh? Say what?” She questioned.

“That thing you hate so much… just say it.”

“Why?” Sakura raised a brow.

“Just say it with anything,” Syaoran smirked, “I wanna be able to say that I made you say it… come on… please? Just once, I wanna know what it’s like to hear your girl say that.”

Sakura rolled her eyes. “Fine,” she leaned extremely close to Syaoran’s lips, “if you love me,” she started, “you’ll never ask me to ask you to prove your love to me.”

Syaoran grinned. “That can be arranged.”

And their lips locked again.

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The idea just popped to me the other day when my friend told her boyfriend that if he loved her than he’d do something. It’s quite unrealistic that Tomoyo would bug Eriol when he’s tired but I needed her to do that to add the effect to the one-shot.

Hope you liked that… I must say I’ve done that to my boyfriend ONLY ONCE… but that was because it was 4am and he was still awake… so was I but I had homework and he didn’t… he stayed up to keep me company… he wouldn’t go to bed so when I said, “If you love me… you’d sleep… please?” he FINALLY gave in and went to bed… that must be the ONLY time I ever said that… but hey! IT WAS FOR A GOOD CAUSE!

xD

Hope you liked it!

Wuv,

Sakura