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Chapter 2: A Moment Alone.

Their days away had finally passed.

They held each other close, tears streaking down their faces.

Now, even if only for a short while, they are together again. Nothing could possibly ruin this moment.

Except maybe…

"There you are Sakura!!"

Everybody turned to the source of the relieved shout, and saw Touya, accompanied by several guards and Yukito, dashing towards them.

Upon seeing Syaoran, however he stopped dead in his tracks.

"So…" Touya gave Syaoran that look again "the brat's back huh."

Syaoran and Sakura let go of each other. They both stood up, Syaoran smiled at Touya, happy to see him; Sakura, however, was glaring at her brother and looked like she was about to give him a tongue lashing

"Now, now, prince…" Yukito said, trying to restrain Touya from saying anything he might regret.

Touya suddenly returned Syaoran's smile, took a step forward and held out his hand.

"Welcome back."

Syaoran took his hand and shook it.

"It's great to be back."

Sakura smiled brightly.

"Well come on then" she grabbed Syaoran's hand "it'll be dark soon, let's get back to the castle."

"Ha…wha…ah, right let's go." He turned around "Fai, Kurogane, Mokona, let's…"

Kurogane was standing there, nothing strange about that. But he had Fai slung over his left shoulder and was dragging Mokona, hogtied, behind him.

He walked past all of them and was about ten feet in front of them when he turned his head around.

"Well? What are you guys waiting for?"

He was greeted by silence, except from the ones he was carrying and dragging.

Fai lifted his head and smiled at them "Hey there everyone!"

Mokona was rolling around the sand "Kurogane is hurting Mokona!"

"You shut up!"Kurogane shouted back.

Touya just shrugged, "Well, come on then."

Kurogane started forward, still carrying Fai and dragging Mokona. Yukito, Touya, and the guards followed.

Sakura walked towards and slipped her hand into his surprising him. She looked at him and smiled sweetly.

"Let's go."

He smiled back and squeezed her hand "Yes, let's go."

The castle was a great place to stay. After dinner Syaoran had wanted to return home to sleep there but Sakura had insisted that everyone stay at the castle. Syaoran might have convinced her to let him leave, but he found Touya glaring daggers at him and the said person told him:

"If you think that you are going to sneak out of this and go off on your own after making my sister wait for you for two WHOLE years, then you are very sadly mistaken. Now sit down, and STAY!"

Fai and Mokona were well in agreement with both staying at the castle and making sure Syaoran didn't leave.

Kurogane said something about keeping an eye on the "kid", but it was more like "getting even with the white meat bun". So that meant he was staying too.

Syaoran might have argued further, but the KING and QUEEN personally asked him to stay, turning the offer down at that would have been… He agreed to stay.

That's how he found himself walking around the castle halls in the dead of night.

The moonlight from the windows was just enough to light the way. He stooped and pulled the curtains aside, the landscape of the country he now calls his home, a place where so many things happened.

He was so deep in his thoughts he didn't hear the footsteps coming closer.

"Syaoran…is that you?"

He turned and saw Sakura standing in the dark hallway.

"Sakura, what are you doing here at this hour?"

Sakura shook her head "I should be the one asking you that question."

Her expression became sad "Are you thinking of sneaking out of the castle?"

He walked towards her and gently took her hand.

"No I wasn't, I just couldn't sleep."

She smiled sweetly, "Me neither, why don't we take a walk."

He took her arm, "Lead the way."

They walked away, heading nowhere in particular, still chatting with each other.

In the adjacent corridor, Kurogane stood there listening to their conversation.

"Now what could Kirgy be doing at this hour?"

Kurogane almost jumped at the voice, he looked back at the corridor and saw Fai just standing there smiling at him.

Kurogane just sighed. Fai peeked into the adjacent corridor.

"Keeping an eye on Syaoran, are we?" he patted Kurogane on the back "You are so concerned daddy."

"Shut up!" Kurogane looked around "Where's the white bun?"

As soon as he finished asking the question, something small, white and fluffy flew from behind Fai and smacked him in the face. It took a lot of effort not to scream in surprise, anger or pain.

"Kurogane misses Mokona!"

Kurogane grabbed the white creature stuck on his face and pulled her off, while glaring.

"Why you little…"

He began to pull and stretch Mokona in different directions.

"Waa! Kurogane is hurting Mokona!"

"Shut up you! You deserve this!"

"Fai! Save Mokona!"

Fai just giggled and peered down the corridor once again.

"Aren't you going to follow them?"

Kurogane stopped pulling at Mokona, much to the bun's relief.

"Nah, I think I'll leave 'em to themselves tonight."

"The view here is better that I remember!"

"I told you didn't I?"

Syaoran looked at the princess sitting next to him.

"Yeah well…I guess you did."

She smiled at him then looked up at the stars, "The stars are beautiful."

He turned his gaze to the skies, "Yes…they are."

Here they were again, the roof of the castle, where they had climbed up so many years ago. Well maybe much longer for him than her.

She turned back to him.

"So Syaoran…how have you been?"

"Well…" He replied still looking at the stars "Things have been fine. We haven't run into any trouble."

"That's good to hear."

"And we ended up in Piffle World for a while."

Sakura looked at him, curious.

"Did something happen there?"

Hearing the concern in her voice, Syaoran gave her a reassuring smile.

"Nothing bad happened there. But we did get a new arm for Kurogane.*"

"New arm…?"

"Yes, the old one was giving him trouble."

Sakura looked a little troubled so he gave her a sweet smile.

"Don't worry, everything is fine."

Sakura's face turned a little red and she looked away, so did Syaoran, blushing a little himself.

Syaoran turned back towards her.

"So…uh…um, how about you Sakura?"

Sakura was shaken out of her thoughts "Wha!? What do you mean?"

"I mean, how have you been these past two years?"

She smiled at him and looked out at the desert.

"I've been fine. Nothing much happens here as you know, the only interesting thing I get to do are my preparations."

He looked at her questioningly "Preparations for what?"

She looked back at him "The preparations for becoming High Priestess."

"Of course, you've been working so hard."

They were smiling but suddenly found themselves holding hands.

Sakura looked at him expectantly and moved closer until she was seated next to him. She lifted her face to look him in the eye. Their faces were both deep red. She cupped his left cheek and pulled him closer. They closed their eyes and moved closer, their lips inches apart.

"Hyu, the view at night is beautiful!"

"Will you stop making that annoying sound!"

"Hyu! Is Kurogane annoyed with Mokona too? Hyu!"

"I said STOP IT!"

Fai raised a finger to his lips.

"Shh" Fai pointed upwards "If you're noisy they might notice us."

Sakura and Syaoran were there on the roof, they had chanced upon them when they went to the balcony overlooking the ruins and by the looks of it they had been talking for a while.

"If that's a problem why the hell are we still here!!" they could see a vein in Kurogane's temple that was throbbing in anger.

Fai put on a thoughtful face, "Hmm…I don't really know."

"Mokona does not know either! Maybe Big Puppy knows!"

Kurogane grabbed the annoying little meat bun, his face alive with fury.

"DIE, WHITE BUN!! DIE!!"

"Aw Kirgy is scary!" Fai looked amused.

Kurogane's gaze, along with his indomitable fury, turned towards his new victim, Fai.

"You gonna mess with me now, punk?"

Fai shook his head, along with his hands, "No I don't want to mess with daddy tonight." He returned his gaze to the pair above, ignoring the commotion to his side.

His face broke into a smile "Well, well…"

Kurogane temporarily stopped punishing Mokona for her sins against him today, and followed Fai's gaze.

The two up there were getting awfully close to each other.

Kurogane's gaze softened.

Mokona wiggled in glee "Puu! That's love! That's love!"

"Way to go, kid." Kurogane cheered.

"Aw, Kurogane is feeling the love!" Fai teased.

"Shut up"

"Aw, Kurogane is also getting lovey-duby!" Mokona continued.

Kurogane just choked Mokona into silence.

* This is actually mentioned in xxxHolic so I'm not making this one up.

A/N: Second chapter hope you enjoyed it! Please review to help me improve, and feel free to leave suggestions!