A/N: Ohayo!! This is my first fanfic (as CherubTenshi, anyways). Please
read and review. I accept flames, as long as their constructive and they
won't bring down my self-esteem. I'm learning Japanese this summer, so I
might just add some Japanese I know. If I suck at Japanese, please tell
me!! Anyways! Please!! Read, review, and enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own CCS. I'm having trouble coping.
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To Love You More
Chapter 1
Spring Break, Heart Break
(Sakura POV)
It was five in the afternoon, but it looked like a midnight sky above my head. My legs carried me as far as they could go. It would rain any minute, but I didn't care. I just kept running. I didn't know where I was going, I had forgotten why I was running... no. I remembered exactly why I was running.
And then came the rain.
(Normal POV)
The streets were empty, the sidewalks vacant. Sakura Kinomoto ran as fast as she could. Then it began to rain. With the raindrops falling down upon her face, you couldn't tell she was crying before. Sakura didn't notice the loose gravel from beneath her and slipped. She fell, scraping her knees, and she just sat there, crying. Sakura finally calmed herself, and, instead of running, walked the rest of the way.
Sakura stopped. She had reached her final destination. Before her was a beautiful mansion. Sakura ran towards the door and knocked on the huge doors. Sonomi answered it.
"Sakura!!" The woman knelt beside her. "Is that you??"
Sakura nodded, looking at her feet.
"Please, come inside!!" Sonomi let Sakura pass. Sakura stood on the doormat, trying not to get the marble floor wet. "Rei, get this girl a towel immediately." Sonomi turned from the maid to Sakura. "You could be ill!! I'll take your temperature." The maid came back with a white towel. Sonomi snatched it and wrapped it around Sakura. Sakura held the towel close to her.
"Mother!" A beautiful violet-haired girl skipped down the stairs. "Who was that at the door?" She froze when she saw the pools of emerald staring into her amethyst eyes. "Sakura!" Tomoyo snapped out of her daze and rushed over to her friend. "You're all wet! What were you thinking going out in this weather?" But before Sakura could answer, Tomoyo just shrugged. "Let's go to my room. You can change your clothes there and we'll talk more."
Tomoyo led the way, skipping back up the stairs, and Sakura followed slowly behind her. Tomoyo opened the door to her room and immediately went to her closet. "I'm sooooo glad you came. It's spring break, so we'll catch up on recent events, this'll be so much fun..." But when she looked back, she could tell Sakura wasn't as enthusiastic. "Hey, what's wrong?" Tomoyo held a bundle of clothes in her arms.
Sakura shook her head and smiled. "I'm fine. Really! I'm... just... really wet."
Tomoyo approached her and raised an eyebrow. "Sakura Kinomoto, you don't fool me for one minute." She handed Sakura the clothes. "Change into these and we'll talk about it over a bottle of root beer!" Sakura went into Tomoyo's closet and closed the door behind her. Minutes later, she came out dressed in cargo denim jeans and a sleeveless shirt with a cartoon panda bear eating a bamboo stick and Chinese letterings above the cartoon.
"Hey there Sakura!" Tomoyo said, entering the room with two bottles of root beer in her hands. "I talked to mom, and she said it was okay if you spent the night here! That gives us more time to talk. By the way, you look GREAT! It's one of my latest designs. Do you wanna call your dad and tell him your staying over?"
Sakura nodded and smiled. "Thanks." Tomoyo held a cordless phone in her hand and gave it to Sakura. She dialed a number and put the phone to her ear.
"Moshi Moshi?" Answered a hoarse voice.
"Onii-chan?" Sakura said hesitantly.
"Hey kaijuu!!" Touya yawned on the other line.
"BAKA!! Stop calling me that!" Sakura snapped. "When did you get in town?"
"College students are off for spring break. Aren't high school students out, too?"
"Yes. Where's dad?" Sakura asked.
"Stuck at work. Can't come home in this weather. I was beginning to wonder where you were."
Well, that's the reason I called. I'm-" Sakura was interrupted by Touya.
"Where are you? When are you coming home?" Touya asked defensively.
"I'm at Tomoyo's house. I'll be spending the night since I can't go home in this horrible weather." Sakura responded.
"A likely story." Touya frowned.
"Well, I gotta go. We're gonna party all night long!" Sakura teased. "There'll be booze and boys and lotsa sex! Bye!!" And Sakura hung up before she could hear her brother's response.
"He said it was okay," Sakura told Tomoyo as she handed her the phone.
"Good! So, tell me, what happened? Why'd you come to see me, and of all nights? I mean, I certainly don't mind, but you could've caught a cold out in this weather." Tomoyo said, plopping on her bed.
Sakura shook her head, taking the bottle of root beer in her hands. "It's a long story."
"We've got all night." Tomoyo smiled, sipping her root beer.
Sakura began slowly as she sat down beside Tomoyo on the bed. "There's this guy, Syaoron, and I've loved him... since the first time I saw him."
"Love at first sight? Romantic." Tomoyo commented. "How long have you known him?"
"I've known him since we were freshmen." Sakura answered. "Anyway, I loved him, but I knew he didn't feel the same way about me. In fact, he never looked twice at me. I wasn't even his friend. I was just some girl. So I tried to move on. And I did. I met another guy, Eriol, and we really hit it off. We've been together for about two months now."
"Well that's great!" Tomoyo smiled.
"But that's not all. Lately, Syaoron and I have become good friends and now," Sakura sighed. "Now Syaoron tells me he loves me, and I realize, I still love him, and I kinda told him I felt the same way."
"WHAT??" Tomoyo nearly spit out her root beer. "But you're with Eriol!! Doesn't Syaoron know you and Eriol are boyfriend and girlfriend??"
"I may have failed to mention that in the letter." Sakura twirled her wet hair.
"What letter??" Tomoyo asked.
"The letter telling him I loved him." Sakura flinched at the thought.
"Demo..." Tomoyo paused. "What happened this afternoon that made you come running to my doorstep?"
"I told Eriol I just wanted to be his friend." Sakura looked down. "It's not what I wanted..."
"I know," Tomoyo sighed. "You did it because you couldn't pretend anymore."
Sakura gave her friend a half smile. "Well, yea."
"You know what this means, don't you?" Tomoyo said. Sakura shook her head. "You can't go after Syaoron now! It's too soon! You just broke up with Eriol. When Eriol sees you dumped him for another guy, that's really gonna hurt him." Tomoyo answered.
"How do you know all this?" Sakura asked bewildered at her best friend's knowledge.
"Hey, just because I go to an all-girls school doesn't mean I don't know these things!" Tomoyo said, getting up from the bed. "And so what are you gonna do about the "Syaoron" issue?"
"I dunno. But I'll figure it out somehow." Sakura said, getting up from the bed as well.
"Well, if I were you, I wouldn't go out with Syaoron just yet. Wait a month or so, till Eriol cools off." Tomoyo and Sakura met face to face. "C'mon! Let's go order pizza!" Tomoyo ran downstairs and Sakura followed.
*Later*
It was nine o' clock in the evening, and the girls were ready for bed. Sakura borrowed Tomoyo's pajamas. It was a white spaghetti-strap top with pink italic font "Angel" across the shirt. She had pink shorts and white poofy slippers. Tomoyo had a purple spaghetti strap with black italic font "Princess" across her shirt. She had black, blue, and purple plaid pants and poofy purple slippers. Sakura was on the left side and Tomoyo was on the right side of Tomoyo's king size bed. Sakura looked over at her best friend.
(Sakura POV)
Tomoyo sure changed. Here she was, putting curlers in her hair, mud mask on her face... I waited ten minutes for her to say "Light's out!" so I could finally sleep. But I couldn't.
"Tomoyo," I said.
"Nan desu ka? What is it, Sakura?" Tomoyo asked.
"Mm, Iie, it's nothing." I responded. I wanted to ask her so many things. Now that I was in this predicament, how was I ever gonna get out of it?
"Okay." Tomoyo yawned. "Good-night, Sakura."
"Good-night, Tomoyo." I turned over on my side and thought about what had happened this afternoon.
*Flashback*
(Still Sakura POV)
I asked Eriol to meet me at Penguin Park after school. It was about four thirty the time I got there, but he didn't show up just yet. I was a little nervous because of what I was going to tell him when he arrived. I knew he wouldn't take the news very well. I'd rehearsed what I was to tell him about a million times in less than five minutes. I kept pacing the floor until finally, I sat down on a swing. Ten minutes later, I see him standing in front of me.
"Hey!" He bent over and kissed my cheek.
"I didn't think you'd show." I said, now wishing he would go away.
"So what's this all about?" Eriol asked. I clenched my fists. I had to work up the courage somehow. But I didn't want to hurt him. He's such a great guy. He didn't deserve me.
"Well?" Eriol said. I could feel him get nervous when I refused to answer him the first time.
"Eriol, the past two months," I began. "We've been together. You're such a great person and it's not you-" But I was cut off by Eriol.
"It's not you, it's me." Eriol finished for me. I could see the sadness in his deep azure eyes. "Is that what you were going to say?"
I nodded slowly. "More or less." I tried to smile, but when I saw Eriol looking down, trying to hide his sadness, my smile faded.
Eriol took a seat on the swing next to me, and we both sat in silence. We heard a roll of thunder above our heads, and we looked up at the sky in unison. It was beginning to get darker, and the wind was getting colder.
"Silly me," Eriol finally said, still looking up at the storm clouds. "To think you'd actually lov-" but he stopped and corrected himself. "To think you'd feel the way I felt about you." I thought to myself, 'Does he love me? I'm almost positive he was about to say it.' He got up from the swing and began walking away.
"Eriol! W-wait! Please," I called after him, standing up from the swing. He stopped walking, but he didn't turn around to face me. "We could still... still be... be frien-" I began, my voice wobbly.
"Still be friends, you say?" Eriol finished for me once more, but his voice was shaky and harsh. "I've heard this once before. I knew this was going to happen! I almost didn't show up because I knew..." his voice drifted away.
"Can we be friends?" I asked.
"Sure!" Eriol said in an icy tone. "If that's what you want!" He turned around. Tears were about to spew from his eyes. And then he said, with a softer tone of voice, "You'll always be something more to me." And he turned around and walked away.
*End of Flashback*
(Normal POV)
Sakura blinked her eyes and she held the blankets closer to her body. 'Did it get cold in here or is it just me,' Sakura thought to herself as she looked out Tomoyo's window. The storm had passed and the sky was clear. The moonbeams shone upon Sakura's face. Sakura's eyes closed and she fell asleep.
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A/N: Complete! So, what do you think? A little sad, I know, but it'll all get better, I promise. No, this is not a Sakura/Eriol fanfic. S+S, all the way!! And E+T, too!! Yes, Tomoyo and Sakura go to different schools, but just wait until what happens next chapter!! To keep you guys coming back for more, I'll add a preview of what's to come.
*Preview for Chapter 2*
Sakura was making pancakes in the kitchen later that afternoon when the doorbell rang. "I'll get it!! I'll get it!!" Sakura screeched. She jumped over the table, leap-frogged over her brother, hopped over the couch, opened the front door, and tripped over the person in front of her.
"GOMEN NASAI!!" Sakura got to her feet and bowed in respect. When she saw who was in front of her, she screamed. "HOEE!! Y-you?!" Sakura's eyes went wide. She frowned in anger and embarrassment. "H-how'd you get this address??"
*End of Preview*
Please don't forget to review. Remember what I said about flames.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own CCS. I'm having trouble coping.
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To Love You More
Chapter 1
Spring Break, Heart Break
(Sakura POV)
It was five in the afternoon, but it looked like a midnight sky above my head. My legs carried me as far as they could go. It would rain any minute, but I didn't care. I just kept running. I didn't know where I was going, I had forgotten why I was running... no. I remembered exactly why I was running.
And then came the rain.
(Normal POV)
The streets were empty, the sidewalks vacant. Sakura Kinomoto ran as fast as she could. Then it began to rain. With the raindrops falling down upon her face, you couldn't tell she was crying before. Sakura didn't notice the loose gravel from beneath her and slipped. She fell, scraping her knees, and she just sat there, crying. Sakura finally calmed herself, and, instead of running, walked the rest of the way.
Sakura stopped. She had reached her final destination. Before her was a beautiful mansion. Sakura ran towards the door and knocked on the huge doors. Sonomi answered it.
"Sakura!!" The woman knelt beside her. "Is that you??"
Sakura nodded, looking at her feet.
"Please, come inside!!" Sonomi let Sakura pass. Sakura stood on the doormat, trying not to get the marble floor wet. "Rei, get this girl a towel immediately." Sonomi turned from the maid to Sakura. "You could be ill!! I'll take your temperature." The maid came back with a white towel. Sonomi snatched it and wrapped it around Sakura. Sakura held the towel close to her.
"Mother!" A beautiful violet-haired girl skipped down the stairs. "Who was that at the door?" She froze when she saw the pools of emerald staring into her amethyst eyes. "Sakura!" Tomoyo snapped out of her daze and rushed over to her friend. "You're all wet! What were you thinking going out in this weather?" But before Sakura could answer, Tomoyo just shrugged. "Let's go to my room. You can change your clothes there and we'll talk more."
Tomoyo led the way, skipping back up the stairs, and Sakura followed slowly behind her. Tomoyo opened the door to her room and immediately went to her closet. "I'm sooooo glad you came. It's spring break, so we'll catch up on recent events, this'll be so much fun..." But when she looked back, she could tell Sakura wasn't as enthusiastic. "Hey, what's wrong?" Tomoyo held a bundle of clothes in her arms.
Sakura shook her head and smiled. "I'm fine. Really! I'm... just... really wet."
Tomoyo approached her and raised an eyebrow. "Sakura Kinomoto, you don't fool me for one minute." She handed Sakura the clothes. "Change into these and we'll talk about it over a bottle of root beer!" Sakura went into Tomoyo's closet and closed the door behind her. Minutes later, she came out dressed in cargo denim jeans and a sleeveless shirt with a cartoon panda bear eating a bamboo stick and Chinese letterings above the cartoon.
"Hey there Sakura!" Tomoyo said, entering the room with two bottles of root beer in her hands. "I talked to mom, and she said it was okay if you spent the night here! That gives us more time to talk. By the way, you look GREAT! It's one of my latest designs. Do you wanna call your dad and tell him your staying over?"
Sakura nodded and smiled. "Thanks." Tomoyo held a cordless phone in her hand and gave it to Sakura. She dialed a number and put the phone to her ear.
"Moshi Moshi?" Answered a hoarse voice.
"Onii-chan?" Sakura said hesitantly.
"Hey kaijuu!!" Touya yawned on the other line.
"BAKA!! Stop calling me that!" Sakura snapped. "When did you get in town?"
"College students are off for spring break. Aren't high school students out, too?"
"Yes. Where's dad?" Sakura asked.
"Stuck at work. Can't come home in this weather. I was beginning to wonder where you were."
Well, that's the reason I called. I'm-" Sakura was interrupted by Touya.
"Where are you? When are you coming home?" Touya asked defensively.
"I'm at Tomoyo's house. I'll be spending the night since I can't go home in this horrible weather." Sakura responded.
"A likely story." Touya frowned.
"Well, I gotta go. We're gonna party all night long!" Sakura teased. "There'll be booze and boys and lotsa sex! Bye!!" And Sakura hung up before she could hear her brother's response.
"He said it was okay," Sakura told Tomoyo as she handed her the phone.
"Good! So, tell me, what happened? Why'd you come to see me, and of all nights? I mean, I certainly don't mind, but you could've caught a cold out in this weather." Tomoyo said, plopping on her bed.
Sakura shook her head, taking the bottle of root beer in her hands. "It's a long story."
"We've got all night." Tomoyo smiled, sipping her root beer.
Sakura began slowly as she sat down beside Tomoyo on the bed. "There's this guy, Syaoron, and I've loved him... since the first time I saw him."
"Love at first sight? Romantic." Tomoyo commented. "How long have you known him?"
"I've known him since we were freshmen." Sakura answered. "Anyway, I loved him, but I knew he didn't feel the same way about me. In fact, he never looked twice at me. I wasn't even his friend. I was just some girl. So I tried to move on. And I did. I met another guy, Eriol, and we really hit it off. We've been together for about two months now."
"Well that's great!" Tomoyo smiled.
"But that's not all. Lately, Syaoron and I have become good friends and now," Sakura sighed. "Now Syaoron tells me he loves me, and I realize, I still love him, and I kinda told him I felt the same way."
"WHAT??" Tomoyo nearly spit out her root beer. "But you're with Eriol!! Doesn't Syaoron know you and Eriol are boyfriend and girlfriend??"
"I may have failed to mention that in the letter." Sakura twirled her wet hair.
"What letter??" Tomoyo asked.
"The letter telling him I loved him." Sakura flinched at the thought.
"Demo..." Tomoyo paused. "What happened this afternoon that made you come running to my doorstep?"
"I told Eriol I just wanted to be his friend." Sakura looked down. "It's not what I wanted..."
"I know," Tomoyo sighed. "You did it because you couldn't pretend anymore."
Sakura gave her friend a half smile. "Well, yea."
"You know what this means, don't you?" Tomoyo said. Sakura shook her head. "You can't go after Syaoron now! It's too soon! You just broke up with Eriol. When Eriol sees you dumped him for another guy, that's really gonna hurt him." Tomoyo answered.
"How do you know all this?" Sakura asked bewildered at her best friend's knowledge.
"Hey, just because I go to an all-girls school doesn't mean I don't know these things!" Tomoyo said, getting up from the bed. "And so what are you gonna do about the "Syaoron" issue?"
"I dunno. But I'll figure it out somehow." Sakura said, getting up from the bed as well.
"Well, if I were you, I wouldn't go out with Syaoron just yet. Wait a month or so, till Eriol cools off." Tomoyo and Sakura met face to face. "C'mon! Let's go order pizza!" Tomoyo ran downstairs and Sakura followed.
*Later*
It was nine o' clock in the evening, and the girls were ready for bed. Sakura borrowed Tomoyo's pajamas. It was a white spaghetti-strap top with pink italic font "Angel" across the shirt. She had pink shorts and white poofy slippers. Tomoyo had a purple spaghetti strap with black italic font "Princess" across her shirt. She had black, blue, and purple plaid pants and poofy purple slippers. Sakura was on the left side and Tomoyo was on the right side of Tomoyo's king size bed. Sakura looked over at her best friend.
(Sakura POV)
Tomoyo sure changed. Here she was, putting curlers in her hair, mud mask on her face... I waited ten minutes for her to say "Light's out!" so I could finally sleep. But I couldn't.
"Tomoyo," I said.
"Nan desu ka? What is it, Sakura?" Tomoyo asked.
"Mm, Iie, it's nothing." I responded. I wanted to ask her so many things. Now that I was in this predicament, how was I ever gonna get out of it?
"Okay." Tomoyo yawned. "Good-night, Sakura."
"Good-night, Tomoyo." I turned over on my side and thought about what had happened this afternoon.
*Flashback*
(Still Sakura POV)
I asked Eriol to meet me at Penguin Park after school. It was about four thirty the time I got there, but he didn't show up just yet. I was a little nervous because of what I was going to tell him when he arrived. I knew he wouldn't take the news very well. I'd rehearsed what I was to tell him about a million times in less than five minutes. I kept pacing the floor until finally, I sat down on a swing. Ten minutes later, I see him standing in front of me.
"Hey!" He bent over and kissed my cheek.
"I didn't think you'd show." I said, now wishing he would go away.
"So what's this all about?" Eriol asked. I clenched my fists. I had to work up the courage somehow. But I didn't want to hurt him. He's such a great guy. He didn't deserve me.
"Well?" Eriol said. I could feel him get nervous when I refused to answer him the first time.
"Eriol, the past two months," I began. "We've been together. You're such a great person and it's not you-" But I was cut off by Eriol.
"It's not you, it's me." Eriol finished for me. I could see the sadness in his deep azure eyes. "Is that what you were going to say?"
I nodded slowly. "More or less." I tried to smile, but when I saw Eriol looking down, trying to hide his sadness, my smile faded.
Eriol took a seat on the swing next to me, and we both sat in silence. We heard a roll of thunder above our heads, and we looked up at the sky in unison. It was beginning to get darker, and the wind was getting colder.
"Silly me," Eriol finally said, still looking up at the storm clouds. "To think you'd actually lov-" but he stopped and corrected himself. "To think you'd feel the way I felt about you." I thought to myself, 'Does he love me? I'm almost positive he was about to say it.' He got up from the swing and began walking away.
"Eriol! W-wait! Please," I called after him, standing up from the swing. He stopped walking, but he didn't turn around to face me. "We could still... still be... be frien-" I began, my voice wobbly.
"Still be friends, you say?" Eriol finished for me once more, but his voice was shaky and harsh. "I've heard this once before. I knew this was going to happen! I almost didn't show up because I knew..." his voice drifted away.
"Can we be friends?" I asked.
"Sure!" Eriol said in an icy tone. "If that's what you want!" He turned around. Tears were about to spew from his eyes. And then he said, with a softer tone of voice, "You'll always be something more to me." And he turned around and walked away.
*End of Flashback*
(Normal POV)
Sakura blinked her eyes and she held the blankets closer to her body. 'Did it get cold in here or is it just me,' Sakura thought to herself as she looked out Tomoyo's window. The storm had passed and the sky was clear. The moonbeams shone upon Sakura's face. Sakura's eyes closed and she fell asleep.
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A/N: Complete! So, what do you think? A little sad, I know, but it'll all get better, I promise. No, this is not a Sakura/Eriol fanfic. S+S, all the way!! And E+T, too!! Yes, Tomoyo and Sakura go to different schools, but just wait until what happens next chapter!! To keep you guys coming back for more, I'll add a preview of what's to come.
*Preview for Chapter 2*
Sakura was making pancakes in the kitchen later that afternoon when the doorbell rang. "I'll get it!! I'll get it!!" Sakura screeched. She jumped over the table, leap-frogged over her brother, hopped over the couch, opened the front door, and tripped over the person in front of her.
"GOMEN NASAI!!" Sakura got to her feet and bowed in respect. When she saw who was in front of her, she screamed. "HOEE!! Y-you?!" Sakura's eyes went wide. She frowned in anger and embarrassment. "H-how'd you get this address??"
*End of Preview*
Please don't forget to review. Remember what I said about flames.
