Petals Fall

Petals Fall....
A S&S
Part 1: Syaoran Li

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The sakura petals are proably falling now in Japan. I'm stuck back in Hong Kong, away from it. The cards are all captured, life is mostly good--except that Mother ordered me to come home. Away from Japan. Away from Sakura.

Life sucks don't you know? I'm away from Sakura. Sakura, who I loved with all my life and being. Sakura, who I protected with my life and power. Sakura, like the flowers that bloom in spring and whose petals are falling this very moment.

At the same time, my love for Sakura bloomed. It blossomed and flourished, like the flower my love object was named for.

That name doesn't do her justice, what would you know. No flower could be close to her extraordinary beauty and grace that I love in her...my Kinomoto Sakura. No one else can love her as I do...no one.

Somehow, that love was returned. Sakura found room in her heart to love me, Li Syaoran, completely unworthy of her love.

We were close, never leaving the other's side, wishing nothing more than each other. I only wish now of her...of the one named after the flower that blooms in spring.

A lotus...Li Meilin. She was jealous out of her mind. She didn't think that I should have fallen in love with Sakura when I was engaged to her. I just don't feel that way about her. I care about her, of course, I have to! But I could never love her. It's not the same.... I just don't love Meilin. But I love Sakura...she never understood that, and complained to the family. They sympatized with me. Meilin left me, never to be found again.

I feel sorry for the lotus, you know? I feel...I should have treated her much better. My mistake. But I still loved Sakura all the same, and her leaving only got us closer.

The petals fall in Japan as I fall deeper in love with their namesake.

Wo ai ni, my blossom, my world, my meaning of being...Kinomoto Sakura.

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TBC

"Wo ai ni" is Mandarin for "I love you"...used in a lot of Gundam Wing fics that I've read, so why not introduce it to CCS? ^_^ Like it? Hate it? Review and tell me!