(With ideas and co-writing from HeYan)
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Sorry! To all those who know the Japanese names better, I don't really know them, but here's a name guide:
Sakura Avalon: Sakura Kinomoto Li Showron: Syaoran Li Madison Taylor: Tomoyo Daidouji Meilin Rae: Meiling Li Tori Avalon: Touya Kinomoto Julian Star: Yukito Tsukishiro Chelsea: Chiharu Mihara Nikki: Naoko Yanagisawa Rita: Rika Sasaki Zachary/ Zach: Takashi Yamazaki
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Chapter 3:
Wolf down
Sakura grabbed all her and Li's clothes out of the wardrobe, and folded them as quickly as possible.
They had to check in for their flight in one hour, and the airport was about twenty minutes away.
"Mum, why are we rushing? We're not supposed to be leaving until tomorrow!" Hotaru and Genrou were complaining loudly and she had just about had enough.
"Because one of your father's relatives is a little unwell, and we have to go and see him, it looks like he may be on his death bed, so please hurry guys; we don't have very long. Aru, honey, could you please go and explain to Auntie Madison?" Hotaru left her room and headed next door.
"Thank you, honey." Sakura looked around the villa, trying to remember where Li had said he was going, but she was barely listening in the rush.
She soon found him, however, in the bathroom, packing up their toiletries.
"You ok, sweetheart?" She asked, putting an arm around his shoulder.
"Yeah, thanks." Sakura frowned, realising he was actually being genuine.
"Aren't you upset? He's on his death bed!" Sakura wasn't exactly as tactful as her best friend.
"It's no secret that Wolf and I have never really got on. We're only going out of respect, then I'm gonna make our excuses and leave." Sakura stood there, gob smacked.
"Didn't he train you when you were younger?"
"Yeah, but only for a couple of years, like when I was six. Suddenly he was too old to train me and Meilin. Had nothing to do with the fact that he hated me, and Meilin didn't have any magic." Li smirked.
"So, why didn't he like you?" Sakura was completely engrossed by this story now, and had completely forgotten about the packing.
"Well, I think it had something to do with the fact that I was gonna be the new leader of the clan after him, so I think he felt threatened by me. My mother said he didn't like my father, either."
"Mum?" Hotaru knocked on the bathroom door, scared to upset her father anymore than he was already, apparently, upset. But as she entered the bathroom, they both seemed to be acting quite normally.
"Yeah?" Sakura looked questioningly at her youngest child.
"Auntie Madison said her and Hiroshi are coming, too, cause Uncle Eli has some business back home, and they want a proper holiday." Sakura and Li exchanged looks. They'd been pretending not to hear the late night rows between Madison and Eli for a while now, and Sakura was becoming increasingly more worried about her best friend's marriage.
"If we're done packing here, I'm just gonna go check on Madison…" Sakura smiled at her daughter.
"Aru, darling, go check if Gen's finished, please. Thank you honey!"
As Hotaru left the room, Sakura sighed. Li wrapped an arm around his wife. He felt her stress.
Seeing someone else's marriage fall apart was never good, and seeing your wife go through all the pain of seeing her best friend suffer was never good. But there was nothing he could do.
Was there?