Hehe… hello! Um yeah it's been a month I think… I'm not usually like this…I think my brain decided to go on a holiday, I'm sorry! Hopefully this won't happen again. Gomen!


Syaoran was woken up by the wafting smell of pancakes… yum. Almost in a trance, he got up and 'floated' towards the smell. When he got there, he was startled fully awake- there was a stranger, in their house… cooking pancakes?

"Who are you?" He said it quite bluntly, not paying much thought to the horrible headache he now realised he had.

"Er… I'm Kira- don't you remember?"

Syaoran assumed this was some sort of trick on him. Play innocent and then get all weepy so they could get away with what they wanted… after all, Syaoran hated to see people cry.

"Ok, I give up. Who sent you and what do you want with me?"

"… Do you have short-term memory? You know, yesterday, the bar-"

"Oh no… nothing happened right? I must remind you I was half-drunk"

"OH MY GAWSH! –insert Kira's angry face- Forget it! You probably forgot all about our deal and erased me from your memory… Am I that unlikeable? No one knows I even exist!"

With that, the girl burst into tears and, for some reason, seeing her cry made all the memories flood back to him.

"Oh… hehe, I apologise, I remember now- you must remember I was half-dru-"

"I don't care! I call this deal off! I'll gain a ticket by myself!"

Must be her time of the month, who bursts into tears that easily?

Sakura turned around to leave only to bash into a figure- Eriol… or should we say Eric. Instantly her face turned a bright red as she stared into his face before hastily looking away.

"Oh… G-good morning Eric!"

Eric looked down at her and smiled

"Why hello there, we haven't been properly introduced. My name isn't Eric, actually it's-"

He broke off suddenly and seemed to notice the death stare his best friend was giving him before hurriedly correcting his 'mistake'.

"I mean… Of course my name is Eric! Erm… Hi! I'm Eric and your name is…?"

"Kira. Pleasure to meet you" In the calmest and charming voice she could muster and trying to keep her blush to a minimum.

"And might I inquire your reason for being here?" He politely asked

"Actually, I was just about to pack our things for our journey… you're coming too right?" Sakura questioned unabashedly

"But I thought you called off th-" Syaoran stopped short when he saw the death glare he was sent by Sakura. Goodness knows how she mastered it so well

"Well let's going now, shall we?" Sakura smiled charmingly at Eriol, as if that glare hadn't taken place.

'Definitely her time of the month' thought Syaoran


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Sakura scowled at Syaoran when he squeezed past her in the narrow hallway of the moving train. It seemed she still hadn't forgiven him for that earlier incident and she backed this up by poking out her tongue at him.

"My my Kira, I didn't know you had such a strong hatred for me… remind me why you're here again?" Syaoran grinned evilly, already knowing her answer

The result was a completely red Sakura who was for once, unable to retort from embarrassment and who made a non-so-subtle glance at Eriol.

Eriol, who wasn't looking but rather listening, pretending to be absorbed in a book, marked down a tally under Syaoran after he clearly won that argument. Score now? Sakura was winning 11 to 6.

He continued to listen or rather, eavesdrop, and he was greeted by a now sweet angelic voice greeting the two outside.

"Good morning. Do you mind if I go into the same carriage as you? There appears to be no one else on board so I feel a bit lonely."

She was greeted with the gushing of Kira's voice saying that it was perfectly fine and ushered into their cabin.

The door slid open and what Eriol saw surprised him fully. Standing before him was a beautiful teen with waves of black hair and violet tinged eyes. Her clothing was evidently fine quality and she held herself the way a princess would. Maybe… she was the real Melenia?

The court hadn't actually provided a picture of Melenia to narrow the chances of fraud but Syaoran had snooped around and got the basic description of her plus Syaoran's gut instinct and the person in front of Eriol looked very similar to their description… it was then, Eriol realised they had met before.

"Princess, it's been so long! What are you doing here on a train of all places?" Eriol immediately bowed while kissing her hand.

"Oh, Eri, such the charmer as usual! Didn't I tell you there was no need to use the formalities? And get up! You're embarrassing me!"

She hastened to get him to his feet and for a moment they stared into each other's eyes before being rudely interrupted by Syaoran.

"Hate to spoil the moment" said Syaoran not sounding upset at all "But ERIO-C!" he yelled noticing Sakura watching "You knew who princess Melenia was all along and didn't tell me? What sort of a friend are you? I'm beginning to question our relationship!" (A.n. LOL!)

"Actually, I'm not princess Melenia. I actually belong to the Daidouji family, my name is Tomoyo." She smiled at Syaoran

"…oh. Pardon me –sheepish grin- I'm sorry er, princess my name is Ryan and that there is Kira." He said motioning to Sakura who seemed to be staring at Tomoyo in a strange way.

"It is fine Ryan, you're forgiven." Tomoyo replied graciously

"I see you met my friend Eric already." Syaoran added as an afterthought to try pass the message on to Tomoyo.

Luckily she seemed to catch on quite fast.

"Oh yes, you see Eric and I used to be good friends back at the palace. I've come back from my temporary stay in London, to see my mum."

"Isn't she currently the queen?" Syaoran questioned

"Yes she is. The other royal family- Clow (an I'm regretted putting in Tomoeda so after much thought, I've changed it to Clow) is currently lacking a male in their family, as are we, but since we were the last family to have a male, we rule until one of our families produce a son. Of course, we hope one day we will be able to unite the two families so we can be one." Concluded Tomoyo

All this time Sakura had been staring at Tomoyo with a curious expression. Tomoyo noticed and cheerfully asked

"Is there something I can help you with Kira?"

Sakura immediately blinked out of her state and shook her head.

"Not really… I just thought I heard your name somewhere before."

"Really? But no one apart from friends or family should know my name- it's to protect us from danger. I'm telling you two because you seem trustworthy and you're friends of Eriol's"

"…I guess, I must have been mistak-"

Suddenly, the train jerked to a stop. Then, it sped up at a lightning pace, leaving our 4 characters clutching desperately to the poles to avoid being sent to the back of the train.

"Why isn't there anyone else on the train?" yelled Syaoran having just looked at the surrounding carriages.

"I told you it was an empty train, Ryan" Tomoyo's calm voice echoed to him

Syaoran carefully made it back into their carriage before opening the window

"Guys, we're going to have jump."

"WHAT? That will surely injure us terribly. I can't do that! I already have fragile bones from my last train incident" shouted Sakura

"Either that, or you die" Syaoran replied grimly

He was just about to jump out when the train suddenly stopped. The impact was so large that the train tilted sideways before falling off the railway and guess what? The train happened to stop in the middle of an empty bridge with a large lake below them.

It was too late. Tomoyo had already fainted into Eriol's arms and Sakura was holding desperately onto the nearest object: Syaoran

Just before the train hit the water, Sakura closed her eyes and said

"Syaoran will save me"

Syaoran turned at his name and in the last few seconds of his life, wondered how Kira knew his name.

The train hit the water with a deafening splash.


THE END


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Ok, I'm joking. The story has not ended. I was just typing and I thought what a nice ending that would be... except nothing would be solved... SO, did I scare you? How nasty of me

I think the pieces might be starting to come together even though that wasn't my intentional plan. Oh well. Again I apologise for this late update and I hoped you enjoyed reading it!

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