A/N: Hey there! I hope you will enjoy this one :) This story will be mostly in Sakura's POV. But I will make sure to add some special chapters with Syaoran's POV :)

THIS STORY IS HEAVILY ADAPTED FROM THE GAME "forbidden love". I do not own clamp or the game "Forbidden love" from M&A Online. I do not own the PLOT. I just made some parts that would fit, like dialogues, thoughts and etc.

Im so sorry if there will be some errors in the story! This chapter was only edited A BIT.

I thought that it would be great if everyone could read the story that has warmed my heart.

ENJOY~~

Not: Sakura is 17, Syaoran is 21.

Unrequited Love - Prologue

Sakura's POV

Syaoran nii-chan, wearing a suit, was surrounded by a great number of people in the middle of the large part hall.

"Syaoran! You really have grown! You will do great in following your father's footsteps!" a man said.

"Yes, going straight to the Hong Kong branch after graduating from university!" another guest continued.

"Haha. The decision was quiet hasty" he replied.

"Don't say such things, Syaoran. You must be prepared when the time comes.." father suddenly appeared.

"Dad!" Father chuckles.

The people surrounding him laughed.

I was sitting here, drinking orange juice, away from the center of the fun hall.

'Onii-chan is acting quite oddly than usual...He is kinda relaxed today...' i thought.

"Sakura! Why are you sitting in the corner?" I heard mother's voice, interrupting me from my thoughts.

"Mother..."

"Why don't you go and talk to your brother? He will be leaving, after all." mother said.

"Yeah..." I said quietly.

What mother didn't know, is that it wasn't so simple. Having entered the Li family as a child from my mother's previous marriage, I always end up holding back at times like this.

"I will do that later, when there are less people…" I decided.

"Alright then. That boy has really grown up into a fine young man."

"Syaoran nii-chan has?"

"When I first met him, he was still a bashful little thing. That boy will definitely succeed."

My mother was always like this. After the separation from my biological father, she had been with countless men. All of them had been rich. She values men from whether they could make money. She always decided based on that.

"You need to catch a man as good as that too." She said, referring to my brother.

'I am not like you, mother" I said in my head.

At that time, I heard a high-pitched laugh from the center of the hall.

"Suzuno , you will be spreading your wings in the world together with Syaoran then. That's wonderful!"

"No , not at all. I will just be supporting Syaoran ." my brother's fiancé denied with a smile.

Oh yeah. That was Suzuno, my brother's fiancé . She was a model, and she was behaving graciously in clothes that were flashy enough to make it seem like the party was being thrown for her.

"Well, look at that. Unlike you, Suzuno seems to understand how to act in high society rather well " mother says.

"…I'm going to go outside for a while" I said said more to myself than to mother.

I didn't like the atmosphere inside the hall, so I went outside. As I walked outside, gentle wind greeted me. It felt wonderful.

"Ha… As I thought, I am not really suited for this sort of world" I say to myself.

Everyone always seemed to expect something from my brother, and they looked at him with smiles and adoring eyes. But when they looked at me, their smiles were somehow strained and they did not have that sparkle in their eyes when talking to brother.

'I never really wanted any of this…'

"Oh. So you were here" a voice said

"HOEEEE!" I screamed in surprise. I turned around to see who called out to me and I saw Tom Nicholson, president of a company that did business with the Li Corp, approaching me with a red face. I have talked to him a few times before.

"Ah..Good Evening" I said politely.

"Why are you here all by yourself?" he asked. "As expected, being there must be tough for a child from a previous marriage." he continued.

"…" I stayed silent. Tom was acting different from usual. He wasn't the sort of person who would say something like that, and he was a bit over-familiar…

"You are so much sexier right now… As expected. Blood will tell. " he surprised me.

"..Please excuse me." I tried to reason to get out.

"Well, it's nothing to be unkind about. I've got something very good to say to you"

"Something very good, is it?"

"Yes…I'm thinking of giving you this much every month" he said while raising one finger.

"What do you mean?"

"If you're going into university too, you'll want to play like everyone else and be stylish, am I right?"

"N-not really…" I stuttered.

"But Mr. Li is a strict man. He won't give you money for something like that. " he ignored my comment.

"um…"

"So then , I will be your Daddy-Long-Legs. What do you think?"

It might have been because he was drunk that he was acting like this.

Then he gazed at me in a lewdway. Then, it hit me like a rock. I understood what he meant by "Daddy-Long-Legs"

"I'm fine. I have no interest in that sort of thing." I tried to leave but Tom tightly gripped my hand.

"It's not a bad idea. You're a child from a previous marriage. So it'll be difficult for you to share the Li family power in the future, you know." He insisted.

"It'd be easier for you to be the obedient lover of a celebrity like me. Like what your mother is doing. " he added.

"…!" I suddenly raised my hand, but I stopped myself just in time. 'This person is a business partner of Li Corp…' I remembered. ' He might do business with onii-chan someday'

"What? Is it enough money?"

"It isn't enough money at all. Aren't you missing one digit? "

"Well, well, well…That greediness must be from your mother."

"In the first place, I refuse to be a lover who doesn't know when she'll be thrown away." I said angrily. "If you really want to sleep with me, please sign a marriage license form and bring it to me"

'This is for the good of the company, right?' I thought to myself.

"Hey…"

"Though that's just if you really meant what you said."

"Th-that….Give me some time to think" Tom suddenly looked conflicted and went back to the party hall.

After seeing him leave, I sat down like I was crumbling.

'I said something amazing on the spur of the moment…He won't actually take me seriously right…?'

"Missing one digit, huh?..." a cold voice said.

I turned around quickly and saw the source of the voice. I saw Syaoran nii-chan standing near the door, holding two glasses in his hands.

"Onii-chan…"

"I came to find you since I was worried that you looked, well, a bit off, but…." my brother looked both angry and at the same time sad as he handed me a glass of water.

"…" I stayed silent.

"So you were also this sort of woman who could say something like that…!"

"Y-you're mistaken! Earlier I was just…" I tried to reason.

"I thought you were different from that woman but….as expected, you're mother and daughter" after saying that. My brother turned around coldly.

I couldn't say anything and could only look at the ground. 'It was for the good of everyone…'

The next day…

The next morning, I woke up. I really didn't sleep much last night. I headed towards the living room.

'I need to explain to onii-chan about yesterday…'

In a few days, my brother would go to Hong Kong. I wanted to clear the misunderstanding somehow before he leaves. 'I…I'm different from my mother!' I insisted to myself.

When I entered the living room, , the butler, rushed over to me.

"Young lady, good morning. Um…"

"Good morning. What's the matter?" I felt that something was wrong.

"Just a moment ago, Master Syaoran departed for Hong Kong."

"EH? But wasn't he supposed to leave next week?" I was shocked.

"The truth is, last night, he asked me to prepare a ticket as he would be departing immediately.." he told me the truth. "Everyone needs to be notified of his departure."

"But that's…!?"

In order to change, I hurriedly went back up the stairs.

"Young lady, what are you planning to do?" he interrupted me.

"I'm going to go after him right away! There is something I need to tell him."

"Um..Im so sorry young lady but, the flight to Hong Kong has already departed…"

"That can't be…"

In the end, I couldn't clear up my brother's misunderstanding. A little knot in my stomach would soon become the fuse for the start of a love-hate drama…

To be continued…

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