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The One I Love
Chapter 2
Defensive Training
Two weeks had passed since Sakura's birthday party and Syaoran still hadn't found the courage to tell her he was leaving for Hong Kong. His mom had been pressuring him for the past week to tell her before it was too late.
"Syaoran, you have to tell her soon! If you don't things will turn out badly." she would say often.
The door bell rang throughout the hug mansion as Syaoran ate his breakfast slowly feeling guilty and annoyed about leaving Tomoeda. The next moment Wei came into the dinning room fallowed by Nadeshiko Kinomoto and her daughter Sakura holding her hand. Yelan had planned for her son and Sakura to be together for the whole day hoping that Syaoran would tell her he had to go back to Hong Kong because of the clan elders.
Syaoran had known that his mother had planned his to give him the opportunity, but he also knew that his mother and aunt needed to discuss financial matters and Nadeshiko's medical bills. Although he wasn't quite sure why they had chose the mall instead of one of the sound proof conference rooms in the mansion.
The air between Sakura and Syaoran as they walked to the Li's private gym for his morning training was uneasy for him, but Sakura just seemed to be enjoying being next to him to notice. As they entered Sakura sat on the floor watching Wei taught Syaoran basic fighting skills. Wei was the kindest man Sakura had ever met even though he looked old from all the white hair he had. She was shocked to hear that he was only in his early 40's and had no family of his own. So Xio Li, Syaoran's father, took him in before passing away. Afterwards he just became a Li family member.
Ten minutes had passed and Sakura started to walk to the other side of the gym feeling bored. Syaoran's training could last for a couple of hours. She began to practice her cartwheels and back flips for fun when she heard Wei call to her.
"Sakura-chan!" Wei called again.
Rushing over to him she gave him a look of pure curiosity from her emerald green eyes.
Wei bent down to his knees to get a better look at Sakura's face and placed a hand on top of her head. He smiled at her before asking, "Sakura-chan, could you change into a training outfit for me please? I would like you to train today."
Smiling happily at his request, she nodded and quickly ran off towards the changing rooms. Wei knew she was a strong fighter and learned quickly for her age, but he wanted her to know how to defend herself since they were leaving soon. He wanted to make sure that she was almost as strong as Syaoran. He knew that Syaoran could beat any black belt guy that was twice his size and he wanted Sakura to be the same.
Sakura came out of the changing room after five minutes wearing the same white attire as Syaoran. She walked towards Wei at a slow pace see that Syaoran was still training very hard. She stood next to Wei and lightly pulled his pants to get his attention.
"Ah, Sakura-chan, you're done already?" he said smiling down at her.
"Hai Wei-san" she answered nodding her head a little.
"That's good because Syaoran-kun is almost down as well. Why don't you sit down and stretch a little bit. I don't want you to hurt yourself because you didn't stretch."
Again she nodded and did as he had asked of her to. She walked behind him and sat down and began to stretch like he had taught her when he first taught her how to defend herself. By the time she was finished, so was Syaoran with his training. He was surprised to see Sakura in the training attire and wondered what Wei had in store for him.
"Wei, what are you planning?" Syaoran asked, but Wei just ignored him and told both of them to follow.
He led them to a more open spaced area in the gym and told both of them where to stand.
"Now, this is a defensive exercise. You two are to attack each other, but not aim to hurt the other. There will be times when defending yourself is better than attacking the person who is attacking you. Defending yourself can come in handy especially if you come across someone who is much stronger than you. By defending instead of attacking you can make the other person tired and it is easier for you to beat them." He paused to see if they had any questions, but when none came he continued. "Both of you face each other and take your stances." he directed. "Now the rules are simple, give all you've got, but don't aim to hurt. This is a defensive training only. Understand?" They nodded at him. "You may begin then."
Syaoran was the one to first strike at her with a side kick which she easily blocked. She quickly countered with a kick to his stomach that sent him backwards a few steps. At the same time she charged at him and did a summersault over his head and placed her arm around his throat.
"It's okay for you to fight will all your strength Syao." she whispered into his ear. "I promise."
Smiling, Syaoran easily got out of her hold and started doing back flips to put distance between them He put about five feet between them and showed her one of his smirks. Wei saw this and knew that the fight was about to become interesting.
A moment later Sakura and Syaoran ran at each other at the same time, dodging each others attack. They threw punches and kicks at each other that they easily blocked without difficulties except when they did a fake left to right kicks at each other. It went on for five minute until Syaoran pinned Sakura to the floor.
"Pinned yah Saku" he said with a smirk.
Sakura giggled before answering. "Not for long Syao." With that she got her legs out from under him and onto his stomach. She pushed him off her over her head. Surprised that she used that attack, he almost didn't land on his feet with his back towards her.
When he turned around she was standing near Wei, who was looking pleased. The fight continued on with the same punches and kicks from both of them all around the room. Again Syaoran pinned Sakura again to the floor.
"That's it's! Fight over!" yelled Wei walking over slowly.
"Syao, you can get off me now." Sakura said breathing hard from exhaustion. "…Syaoran?"
Syaoran just stared down at her sadly before getting up and offering her a hand. She gladly accepted, but once she was on her feet Syaoran pulled her into a hug.
"…Syaoran, what's wrong?" there was concern in her voice.
"Sakura……I'm moving back to Hong Kong in two weeks" he whispered into her ear so that she could hear him. He felt her body go limp from the shock.
Tears formed in Sakura's eyes and fell quickly. It wasn't long until she started balling uncontrollable on his shoulder. Syaoran just held onto her tighter than before and shut his eyes tightly from all the guilt for making her cry.
'I'm sorry Sakura! I don't want to leave you alone again. It's hurting me too' he thought as the door opened with a loud clap. Yelan and Nadeshiko stood there looking at the two kids. They realized that Syaoran had just told Sakura the news.
Okay what do you think!??!?!??! review please cuz I'm not going to post chapter 3 until I see more reviews!!
Working on chapter 3!!! It's where Syaoran has to leave for Hong Kong!!!
