Entwined Destinies: Chapter 2
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"Sakura-chan, please try to keep out of troubles when you're staying at your cousin's house, okay?" Fujitoka said as he ruffled her hair before kissing her lightly on the forehead, a common gesture of affection for him.
Touya, on the other hand, just snorted in disbelief. 'Sakura doesn't cause trouble. It just naturally finds her. Its just like she has a big neon sign that says /evil, attack me/ which she might as well have with the amount of power she has. Not to mention those cards.' He then dropped the luggage near Sakura, a smirk adorning his face, but that quickly disappeared when Sakura kicked his shins, hard.
"Onii-san no baka." Sakura stuck out her tongue at the figure who was hopping furiously on one leg. She picked up the handbag in which Kero had taken a nap in, peering into it cautiously; making sure that Kero is still asleep. Sometimes, the 'sleep' card really comes in handy.
Fujitaka sighed. "Touya, Sakura. Break it up." He said sternly.
Shooting each other equally devastating glares, the both of them shouted out simultaneously, "He/She started it!"
Another sigh escaped his lips. "Touya, act your age. And Sakura?"
"Hai?"
"Don't agitate your brother." A stern look was directed at his only daughter. Knowing that as often as it was Touya who started their quarrels, Sakura was not entirely free from the blame.
"Hai."
Fujitaka's eyes then softened. He then picked up the rest of the bags Touya had un-courteously left on the ground. "Do you need any help carrying these bags, Sakura?"
"Lie. Don't worry otou-san. I can take care of myself. But you and onii-san have planes to catch, don't you? So you'd better hurry before you're late." Sakura took the rest of her luggage from her father, pushing him towards the car, where her brother had taken a seat in, after their little spat.
"Hai. Hai. So I'll be going then, okay Sakura?" He turned around to look at Sakura just before he went inside. Seeing Sakura's nod, he smiled and went to the driver's seat. Starting up his engine, he drived away as it seemed that Touya and Sakura had managed to get themselves into another name-calling match, again, despite the metal door standing between them.
Looking at the rear view mirror, he spotted Sakura waving the both of them goodbye, even though they were rambunctiously throwing insults at one another less than a minute ago. A warming feeling settled in his heart, knowing that underneath all those jibes and cracks at the expanse of the other, the both of them still cared a lot for each other.
Sakura stopped waving her as the car disappeared around the corner. She then picked up the rest of her luggage and took a deep breath, before staring to make her way up the numerous steps that led her towards the shrine.
At the sunset shrine
"Kagome!!" Kun Loon shouted from downstairs.
"Yes?" A reply was shouted back down.
"Is the guest room ready for your cousin?"
"Yup!"
"Then you'd better get ready to greet her. I had a call from your uncle, he just dropped her off. She should be approaching the shrine now."
Hearing her mother's words, Kagome quickly smoothed out her short sleeved shirt. Her outfit was no slouch, it seems that her travels back to the feudal era hadn't hindered her fashion at the least. Her navy blue T-shirt together with skin-tight shorts showed off her shapely figure at all the right places. Coupled with her sparkling sapphire orbs and long tresses of raven black hair, she was guaranteed to make any hormone-driven boy lust after her. Too bad the rest of the students at her school couldn't see past the 'sickly girl' façade. Not that she hadn't received a number of offers, from both the past and the present.
Running out of her room and down the steps, taking two at a time, she opened her front door and stepped out into her yard. Eyes spotting a figure at a distance taking her last step and starting to make her way towards her, Kagome smiled.
'It seems that I've made it just in time.'
Taking in the look of the figure before her, she was shocked. It seemed that her cousin had changed a lot since she last saw her. Her previous chubby face and figure had now been shaped into a shapely figure with a light tan that brought out her sapphire hued eyes. Her raven black hair shone under the sun, sparkling enticingly, creating a peaceful yet mysterious sensation wherever around her. Her ever cheerful smile that was usually plastered on her face had toned down over the years, giving her a more mature look that a person her age would usually have.
While Sakura was shocked by the changes Kagome had undergone, Kagome was outright gaping! The first difference that Kagome noticed about Sakura was her hair. Sakura had allowed her hair to grow out, changing it from the usual shoulder length hair, to the shining waterfall that it is comparable to right now. Her previously lithe and small body had also undergone some huge changes; it seemed that puberty had done her a lot of good. A seemingly ethereal glow surrounded her as her short bout quick strides took her to Kagome's side.
"It's been a long time ne, Gome nee-san?" Sakura beamed at her, hands clutching her precious hand luggage as she stood next to her cousin, basking in the peaceful aura the Goshinboku emits.
"Hai, Kura-chan." Kagome's smile threatened to burst out of her face.
"Kawaii! Kura-chan finally grew up!" Kagome then enthusiastically pounced on her younger cousin, hugging her for all she's worth, their giggles and laughter spread all over the courtyard.
Staring at the star studded sky, Sakura sighed as the excitement she experienced throughout the day drained away from her. Looking up at those twinkling diamonds, she couldn't help but recall all the events that came along with it. There, her thoughts took a sharp turn.
During the day, as Sakura was getting herself re-acquainted with the shrine, courtesy of Kagome, she couldn't help but notice her cousin's smile wasn't as bright as it used to be. Nor was her eyes as innocent and carefree as it was before. Instead, it looked like she was lost and heartbroken…A feeling she can empathise with but unfortunately was unable to do anything about, since her love life wasn't much better.
Her heart never truly recovered from Syaoran's departure 2 years ago…
"Sakura?" Kun Loon called out from the hallway, abruptly breaking Sakura's train of thought. "I've prepared some desert downstairs. Why don't you come and take a bite?"
"Hoe?" Sakura's reply came as her mind tried to process the question; it still being occupied with her previous thoughts.
"Oh! Hai! Coming, oba-san!"
Sakura then abandoned her seat beside the windowsill and made her way downstairs, but not before taking one last look at her star, the source of her powers. Whispering to it softly, her heartfelt wish, "Onegai, watashi wa hoshi, allow me to meet up with Syaoran-kun again…Onegai…"
A crystalline tear rolled down her cheeks as she ran out of her room, her back being the only witness to the sudden bright flare of her star in the dark night sky and the ominous glow of a pair of golden eyes hidden beyond the cover of the Goshinboku tree.
Kero's tiny yellow head popped out of her handbag as she re-entered the room, face contorted into a pout. His tiny wings fluttering behind him, he flew towards Sakura's face and looked at her in the eye, whining "Moe, Sa-ku-ra-chan. How could you do this?! Leaving your faithful guardian of the book to die in such a fashion…"
Fake tears then started spilling out from his beady black eyes, " How could you be so cruel…What. Have. I. Ever. Done. To. You. To. Deserve. Such. Torture?!!" Kero grabbed Sakura's collar using his little paws, giving it a shake after each word to emphasise it, despite the little effect it had on his mistress.
Sweatdropping at the sight at the sight before her, Sakura kept quiet knowing it was better if Kero got his 'extreme incurable sadness' out of his system.
'Note to self: A hungry Kero is an overdramatic Kero.' Sakura then looked towards the heaven, or at least the ceiling and prayed.
'Hopefully, Kero won't find out I ate the pudding oba-san made without saving any for him.'
"What do you mean you didn't save me some?!" Kero then got into her face, eyes buring with an imaginary fire fuelled entirely by his anger.
'Opps. Did I just say that out loud?' Sakura winced as Kero continued yelling, hoping that no one downstairs heard the racket coming from her guardian.
Looking at Kero exasperatedly, Sakura sighed 'I always found it amazing how something so small can create such noise. And to think he said he was going to waste away…'
Finally ending his rant, Kero turned to look at Sakura, only to see here glancing up at the ceiling, seemingly praying for divine intervention. Giving up his chase for pudding, Kero thought to himself, 'Luckily Yue wasn't here, if he was, I would never hear the last of it.'
Pausing for a moment to think, he then mentally added 'Better include the Chinese gakis one and two as well. God knows what they could do with such blackmail in their possession.' Shuddering mentally, he shook himself off that line of thought.
'Lucky for me, two out of the three of them are on the other side of the world.'
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Back in Tomoeda…
A loud sneeze wreaked through Yukito's silm figure as he was in the middle of finishing off the last of the sashimi.
Blinking a few times in confusion, Yukito looked around his tatami matted room before shrugging and continuing his rambunctious eating.
'Must be the dust. Maybe it's time to do some dusting around here…'
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Somewhere in Tokyo, not far from the Higurashi's shrine…
Two figures simultaneously gave out a loud sneeze in the middle of packing.
"AH-CHOO!"
"Ah. Li-sama. Daijoubu desu ka?" Their caretaker poked his head through the door when he heard a rather loud sneeze coming from within the room.
"Daijoubu." The male of the two waved off the caretaker's concern nonchalantly.
Seeing this as a chance to cheer her cousin up, the only female of the group spoke up, "Ohh… Ne, Syaoran-kun, have you ever heard of the saying that for every time you sneeze, somewhere out there someone is talking about you."
Stopping for a moment to gauge his reaction, ruby red eyes twinkling with mischief, she then continued, "So based on that, seeing as you have been sneezing quite frequently these days, it's quite possible that the certain someone talking about you could be the little auburn haired, green eyed–"
"And it is also very possible that the person talking about me is the clan elders or my mom. Assuming that I even hold any faith in that old wives tale." The younger of the two males interrupted the female's 'speech'.
"But—"
"Urusai. We have work to do." The boy snapped, clearly in no mood to continue on that particular track the conversation was on.
The girl and the caretaker then exchanged concerned looks, but they still continued on with what they were previously doing, careful not to say anymore about that particular topic, lest they anger him again.
'Hopefully, after this mission, the elders would finally give him a break he deserves.' A small, more cynical part of the female's mind, helpfully voiced out that the possibility of that happening is almost nil.
'But it still wouldn't hurt to hope, right?'
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A/N: Sorry for not updating for so long..I seem to be saying that a lot these days..hehe
To Yuki Hishiro: Sorry, but Kagome won't be having magic cards or magical powers. Cause her miko powers would be sufficient for what little I have planned for this story. And as for the cards, they are still in Sakura's possession. Sorry I couldn't use your idea, but thx for reviewing!
To all the other reviewers, thank you very much for reviewing my first chapter. You have no idea how much it motivated me to write and type this chapter out. Love ya!
If there's any questions or mistakes with this chapter, feel free to send me a message or tell it to me in a review, because I was quite sleepy when tying it out, so there may be a few errors here and there.
And pls read and review for this chapter too!
