Fandom: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles
Pairing: Sakura/Syaoran
Dedication: Fishy (Primrose) because of my lateness.
Warning: It's a bit abstract…
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Missing someone doesn't always mean they are gone.
It might mean they are here and not with you.
It might mean they are here, but hate you.
What's worse is when they don't know you.
But you know them.
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Things they'll never say
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Some things are best left unsaid. Things like Fai's and how he gets oddly quiet and sad sometimes. Memories of a past that he's running away haunt him and while others notice it, they ignore it too. They have something they're running from too.
Or things like Kurogane's and his softness to black-haired girls. He doesn't show it, because he's that kind of a person, but still he helps them in small ways. If a dark-haired girl needs a book from the top shelf, he'll 'accidentally' drop it. If a girl is missing a few coins, he'll 'find' it. He never admits it, of course.
Most of all, though, the most taboo thing to speak of is Sakura and Syaoran's. She'll never, never, love him—the witch made sure of that—but he never, never, stops trying. There is just something that makes him keep pushing.
Of course, while they are best left unsaid, people do end up talking about it. Kurogane asks Fai about his silence. Fai and Mokona tease their swordsman about his softness.
Still, even then, they usually avoid the topic of Sakura and Syaoran.
Kurogane is the one to break that silence one day.
Sakura was unconscious again and they were all sitting around her that night. Kurogane looked at Syaoran and finally asked the question that had been burning on the tips of their tongues.
"You know she'll never love you."
The brown-haired man looks up in surprise. Kurogane usually doesn't start a conversation. He'll end it, but not start it. And that question…
Syaoran's eyes darken. It is true. Sakura can't love him. All that can happen is his own, one-sided love.
He nods. "I know."
There are times, though, when Sakura looks at him and he thinks that maybe there is a spark of memory in her eyes. A spark that recognizes him. A spark of long lost feelings.
A spark of love.
He thinks at those moments that maybe she's falling for him and that what the Space-Time Witch told him isn't true.
It disappears just as quickly though, and her eyes just show that soft look she gives everyone.
It's disheartening.
Syaoran continues to speak, "But…for that smile…" his voice trails off as the smile in his memory replays. That smile is still the same. For those small moments, those brief flashes when she think of him and only him, he'd do anything.
Kurogane remains silent. He knows what the kid is trying to say. His father told him something like that when he was younger.
He silently hopes—in that small, distant corner of his heart that he denies the existence of—as he watches the boy that maybe their story will end differently.
That maybe there can be a happy ending somewhere for them. Not the one they could have had, but something else.
However, he is Kurogane and therefore does not register that thought. Instead, he just gives a gruff, "Ok."
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A/N: Here is the extra story for you, Fishy! Hope it's good enough. (No idea if you've read Tsubasa, but it still is Sakura/Syaoran!)
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