RubyMstar I'm sooooooooo sorry that I took so long to update, I had finals at school, then I went on a trip as soon as vacation started. Please forgive me! I promise to update a lot more soon! I also decided to make my chapters longer since a lot of my reviewers asked me to. Have fun!

Chapter 5

"HOOOOOOEEEEEE!"

Everyone jumped as this shout was heard all over the front of the school. Most of them went back to what they were doing when they saw whom the scream came from, they were used to Sakura screaming like that.

Ryu jumped too, not expecting such a loud reaction. "Hello, Sakura-chan." He said smiling. Sakura's friends looked at him curiously, and he smiled at them too.

"Ryu-kun, are you coming to school here?" Sakura asked, astonished. "You never told me that!"

"I wasn't really planning to come here, I decided it at last minute. How have you been?"

"Fine, I'm so glad you choose to come here!" Her eyes widened suddenly, "Oh! I should introduce you to my friends. This is Takashi-kun, he tells many good stories, and knows a lot about history. Chiharu-chan is his girlfriend and she is the only one who can stop Takashi-kun when his stories get a bit…" she paused, trying to find the right words, "out of hand. Naoko-chan loves to read and is very good at grammar. Tomoyo-chan is good at everything, like cooking, sewing, studies, and she is a great listener. Rika-chan is just like Tomoyo-chan, she is good at everything. And Eriol-kun is-"

"Creepy," someone interrupted. Sakura whirled around and saw Syaoran, "Creepy is the word you're looking for." He continued.

"I'm hurt! My cute little descendent thinks I'm creepy, what is happening to this world?" Eriol exaggerated.

Tomoyo rolled her eyes, "I bet he's not the only one who thinks that," she murmured.

"Tomoyo-chan!" Eriol gasped in mock horror, then looked at her with hurt puppy dog eyes.

Sakura had to grin as she watched the two of them. They would make such a cute couple! She looked at Chiharu, Naoko, and Rika-chan to find that they were watching Tomoyo and Eriol with the same evil grins. The three of them looked back at Sakura and their grins widened. It was time to play matchmaker! Syaoran and Takashi saw their faces and winced, knowing what was going through their heads. "Leave me out of this," they said at the same time.

"Oh!" said Tomoyo-chan, " We forgot to introduce Syaoran-kun and Ryu-kun."

"No need for that" said Ryu, still smiling, "I already know him. He's my cousin."

"What!" exclaimed everyone except Syaoran, Ryu and Eriol at the same time.

"Yup!" Said Eriol happily; throwing his arm around Ryu's shoulders, "This is my other cute little descendent." Syaoran rolled his eyes and looked upward, pleadingly, like he was asking permission to kill Eriol.

Ryu just grinned, "Me and Eriol have known each other for a long time." He looked at Syaoran; "I can't believe that you're not used to him calling you that by now."

"It's too sinister to get used to. Whatever, I gotta go, Veronica's waiting for me." With that, Syaoran turned around a walked off to find her. All of his friends, except Sakura, wrinkled their noses as they heard his girlfriend's name. Sakura just looked sad, 'He didn't even say "hi" before he left.' She thought sadly. Her friends, noticing her mood, exchanged glances, knowing what she was thinking.

"Hey Sakura, will you show me the way to the Principal's office, please? I don't know my way around, yet."

Sakura smiled at Ryu and nodded, "Sure." The two of them said goodbye to the others and walked into the school. "You know, you'll have to get your school uniform soon. Its just pants for the boys with white shirts and a coat on top. They all have a small design on them, with the words 'Tomodea High School' on them. The girls have skirts instead of pants though." She wrinkled her nose as she said the last part and he had to laugh at her cute face. At that second, she tripped over a book that someone left neer the top of a staircase, letting out a little squeak.

"Sakura-chan, are you okay?" he exclaimed anxiously, bending down next to her as she sat up.

"Oops! I guess I tripped again," she said, rubbing her small nose, and acting as if this happened to her all the time. He laughed at her, and helped her to her feet.

"You dropped your glasses."

She jumped and gave out a little squeak, "Oh no! I forgot about my glasses." She looked around saw that the glasses had fallen down the stairs. She hurried down the stairs and picked them up, checking to see that they were okay. He followed her looking surprised.

"How come you wear those glasses? You can see just fine, you spotted your glasses down here." Sakura blushed slightly, looking guilty.

"Um…Uh… Well, you see… Um…I'm near sighted! That's it, I just can't see things near me." She looked very proud of herself for coming up with a plausible lie. Ryu just raised an eyebrow.

"Sakura-chan, don't lie to me. Now, will you tell me the truth or do I have to go and ask your friends?"

She winced noticeably as she said glumly, and very quickly, "I like wearing glasses because I can hide my face behind them."

He was flabbergasted, "But why! You have such a pretty face, why do you try to hide it?" 'Especially those extravagant eyes,' he thought to himself 'They're too beautiful to be hidden.'

Sakura blushed at the comment, but then sighed, "Well, I didn't always wear the glasses, actually I only started in middle school. A lot of boys kept asking me out, it got really annoying after a while because they were following me where ever I went. Then, Syaoran told me that if it was so annoying, then I should cover up how pretty I look. So I did, I wore large glasses and," here she paused and tweaked at her uniform, which was a size too big, "I got a larger uniform. The boys did stop asking me out, but I was also labeled as a 'dork', not that I really care."

Ryu could see that the dork part didn't really bother her much, but her face had become became a little passive when she was talking about Syaoran. Ryu just shook his head, and let out an amused chuckle, "You really are something Sakura Kinomoto. I can't believe you changed your whole appearance just so a couple of boys would leave you alone."

She just smiled at him as they stopped at a door (A.N. They were walking while talking.) "Well this is the principals office, good luck! I better get to class though. See you later!" He waved goodbye to her as she left and then turned to knock on the principal's office.