A.N. Konnichi wa! Doumo Arigatou minna! Thanks to everyone who reviewed
this story & thanks to everyone who will be reviewing. Here are a few quick
notes before the story starts.
I don't own CCS, CLAMP does.
Also, while I was writing the parts with Syaoran & Sakura in the last chapter, & this chapter I was listening to: "Blue as the Sky". (It's a CCS song, if you search for mp3s on the net you should be able to find it soon enough... in case you want to hear it for yourself. ^_^)
"..." = Spoken Dialogue '...' = Thoughts
Enjoy the story!
Remember Me - Chapter 4
It was 3:00am & the streets were deserted. It was a fairly cool night & Sakura was only wearing slippers on her feet, but she hardly noticed, she already felt numb. "Why? Why? Why?" She kept asking herself over & over. "I have so many questions that I need answered... but who could answer them?" She walked over a little bridge that she had been on so many times & turned & walked down to the stream. She looked at her reflection in the clear water. She looked so sad... she couldn't remember the last time she felt so upset... & she hated it.
She splashed the water with her hand angrily & when it settled there was another face with hers. She screamed & turned around, pushing whoever was behind her down. "I didn't mean to scare you!" It was Syaoran.
"You! Stay away from me! What are you? Some kind of stalker?!" She cried as she backed away from him quickly. "Ah!" she shouted as her footing on a slippery rock gave way.
"Watch out!" Syaoran grabbed her arm to pull her back but he was dragged into the water instead. He ended up lying across her stomach in freezing cold water. It seemed almost familiar. "Are you alright?" He looked up at her.
"Get off of me!" Sakura pushed him off & he landed face-first into the water. "Oh... I'm sorry." She said as he sat up in the stream and stared at her. That angry stare was somehow familiar as well.
"I was just trying to keep you from falling in the water." He said.
"I'm sorry." She shivered from the cold water.
"Here." He stood up & offered his hand to help her up. "Let me help you." She put her hand in his but when she stood up a sharp pain shot through her right foot. She yelped in & fell back down into the water. "What's wrong?!" Syaoran asked alarmed.
Sakura looked down at her foot and realized that her slipper had come off when she fell, she had stepped on a rather sharp rock & it had cut her foot. "I cut my foot." She said quietly.
"I'll take you home." Syaoran picked her up but she refused. She wiggled out of his arms and limping, put on her slipper & began walking away. "Sakura?"
"I'm fine on my own... I'm a big girl... leave me alone... I don't care if you love me.... I've obviously forgotten you for a reason!" She shouted as she limped away, leaving a shocked & soaking wet Syaoran still standing knee high in the water.
As she walked down her street she began trembling violently. It was only April, after all. There was still some snow on the ground, it was the middle of the night & she was in soaking wet clothes. "I'm so cold." Her foot shot pain up her leg & she fell again. "Shimatta!" She cried as she began to pick herself up off the ground. At least she was almost home... she was going to have a warm shower... her dad was going to be working all night on a lecture at the University, so she wouldn't be waking him up. Sakura felt two hands grab her shoulders & help lift her up.
"Syaoran!" she gasped. He was so surprised that he almost dropped her. "That's your name, right?" she asked as he nodded him head. "Why did you come after what I said to you?"
"I love you. I told you that before." He smiled at her as everything went black.
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"I- I love you!" A boy's voice shouted to her in her dream.
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Sakura woke up with a start & looked around the room before realizing where she was. She was... in her bathtub?! "It's so warm!" She splashed lightly & blew at the bubbles. "How did I get in here?" She wondered out loud. She looked at her foot that was propped up on the edge of the tub, with a bandage wrapped around it.
"You collapsed outside so I brought you in to get you warmed up."
"Ah!" Sakura shouted. She hadn't even seen Syaoran there before. "You pervert!" she screamed when she realized that she wasn't wearing CLOTHES in the bathtub & that he had been watching her to make sure that she would wake up.
"I didn't look I swear!" He jumped off his chair & took a few steps back. "I had my eyes closed! And I even put bubbles in the water!" He looked scared of her. "I just didn't want you to freeze to death outside!"
"Well..." She looked around the room, she was so flustered. She realized that he was still wet & shivering. "...hand me that towel & turn around. You need to warm up now." He did as she said. When she had wrapped to towel around herself she told him to have a shower & went to her bedroom to get changed.
She got dressed into her warm pyjamas put her wet clothes in the washing machine. The water in the stream was pretty clean, but it was still pretty dirty too. "He's gonna have wet clothes too. I should clean them & dry them for him." She thought.
"Syaoran! Syaoran!" She shouted as she stood in the bathroom. 'Was he always this deaf?' She suddenly got a wicked idea. "Syaoran!" She shouted as she pulled back the shower curtain.
"Sakura!" He shouted back as he grabbed the curtain from her & covered himself. "What are you doing?!"
She couldn't help but laugh. "Like I can believe an eighteen year old that says he's is in love with me kept his eyes closed the whole time! I was just getting my payback!" She grinned wickedly as his face turned bright red. "I brought you some dry clothes." She smiled. "I'll leave them on this chair here."
"Um... thanks... I guess." He said.
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Sakura was still blow-drying her hair when Syaoran came out of the bathroom dressed in her father's clothes. He was wearing shorts, a T-shirt & her dad's housecoat. She giggled when she saw him walk into her room with his head down. He was embarrassed.
She had to admit... he was pretty hot. "Cute." She laughed.
"What?"
"You can't look me in the eye anymore... it's funny, & kinda cute." She laughed. Her looked up at her, confused & in doing so turned bright red again & looked down. She fell down to her bed, hardly able to breathe.
"Stop laughing!" He pleaded, but was finding it hard to keep himself from laughing too. He gave in & fell to the floor & soon they were both in hysterics.
"Oops!" Sakura exclaimed as she found there was no more bed underneath her & she fell to the floor. Syaoran groaned & she realized that she had landed on top of him. "I'm sorry." She struggled to catch her breath & sat up on her bed. "Why the heck are we laughing?"
"I don't know! I guess just because we're so uncomfortable." He caught his breath and sat on her desk chair. "Stop staring at me!" he laughed as he turned around in the chair.
"Sorry!" She grinned. "So..." She struggled for something to say. "What did you say your family name is again?"
He winced when he realized that she still didn't remember him. "Li. Just like Meiling... we're cousins... remember?" He looked up at her.
"I wish I could." She smiled sympathetically. "My mind can't remember what my heart won't let it." She looked down & cleared her throat. Um... Syaoran? Thank you."
"Why?"
"For bringing me inside & making sure I was alright." She smiled & heard the buzzer sound on he washing machine. "I'll be right back." She left to put their now clean clothes in the dryer.
Syaoran leaned back on his chair & closed his eyes. He sighed. "I have to get her to remember me... but how?"
"Hey! I'm back." Sakura said as she hopped back onto her bed.
"Hey." He said as he sat back up in his chair.
"What were you doing?" She asked him.
Her eyes were so green, he had forgotten. "Um... nothing." He said as he turned a bit red again.
"Oh? Okay." She said looking away. "He's so familiar. I know that I knew him really well. I must of, he said that he helped me capture cards, that means that he was like a partner. But whenever I think about the cards I only remember Tomoyo, Meiling, Kero, & Yue being there.' They sat in silence for a while in the dark room. She began to realize how much she hated being alone at nights when her dad was at the university. Touya wasn't even home anymore.
"Hey Syaoran?" Sakura began to ask.
"Yes?" He looked up at her anxiously.
"Nothing." She smiled. She mentally kicked herself. 'You can't ask him to stay the night just because you're scared! You still don't know him! Even if you remember what he was like when he was 10, it means nothing. He could have changed a lot since then, remember Sakura: he's not a boy anymore...' She gulped audibly catching a strange look from Syaoran. 'He's a man.' She thought. "A man is like a wild animal that lives on instinct."
"What?!" Syaoran looked up at her.
"What? I didn't say anything!" She blushed.
"I could have sworn that I heard you say "A man-" He was cut off.
"Of course not! I'm going to go check on the clothes! I'll be right back!" She quickly ran out of the room.
It wasn't until she got downstairs & saw that the clothes were still damp that a thought struck her. "How did I know he was ten when I knew him?" she asked herself as she remembered her thought before. She ran up the stairs & leapt onto her bed happily. "I knew you when I was ten!"
"Yes..."
"I'm remembering a little bit." She smiled.
"Great!" He smiled with her. "So... are my clothes dry yet?"
"No... not yet. They should be ready in another 10 minutes."
He smiled & sighed.
"What?" Sakura asked him, obviously confused.
"I'm just relieved that you're not attacking me for being in your room." He laughed.
"I guess I have been a little high strung tonight, huh?"
"A little?" He grinned at her.
"Okay... a lot. But you really don't know what this feels like do you?" She said turning serious & staring into his eyes. "I've felt so... incomplete, for so long. And then you show up & I can't remember you, & it makes me start to wonder if you're what's been missing. But it also makes me wonder that maybe I had a reason for not remembering you all these years. My mind is so clouded up I can't think straight! I feel like a puzzle... with a missing piece." She closed her eyes & began to cry.
"Sakura." His voice didn't sound sympathetic, it sounded, empathetic? She felt Syaoran sit next to her on the bed. "I DO know what it feels like... or at least I did."
"What do you mean?" She looked up at him with glassy eyes.
"When I left, I left a part of me here with you, I left you my heart." He put his arms around her & pulled her closer. "I wasn't whole back in Hong Kong... I missed you too much. When I told Meiling that it was your birthday soon she finally got fed up & made her plans to get us to meet again. So, I do know how you feel, but I don't feel that way anymore, because I'm with you again."
Sakura was about to say something... but... *BUZZ!* "Shimatta!" "I'll be right back." She sighed. "It's probably all for the best, I don't know what I could say to him, I can't return his feelings, not yet." She thought as she put the dry clothes in a basket & brought them back upstairs. Syaoran got changed in the bathroom.
"I guess I should be going now." He said as he stood at the doorway of her room. "Thanks for washing my clothes, I'll let you get some sleep now." He began to walk down the stairs.
'Oh no! I'm going to be all alone in the house? You're not getting away so easily, not when I'm just starting to remember who you are!' "Syaoran!" She ran down her stairs after him & tripped at the bottom. She went flying & he caught her just in time. "Do you want to stay?" she asked quietly as he helped her find her footing.
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I'll stop there for now... So, what do you think so far? PLEASE R&R! I don't know if the story is any good if nobody replies! Arigatou for reading anyway! (I don't think many people are reading it, I think that it just sort of got lost in the crowd of stories. ,-_-, *sob*)
Chapter 5 will be up soon!
I don't own CCS, CLAMP does.
Also, while I was writing the parts with Syaoran & Sakura in the last chapter, & this chapter I was listening to: "Blue as the Sky". (It's a CCS song, if you search for mp3s on the net you should be able to find it soon enough... in case you want to hear it for yourself. ^_^)
"..." = Spoken Dialogue '...' = Thoughts
Enjoy the story!
Remember Me - Chapter 4
It was 3:00am & the streets were deserted. It was a fairly cool night & Sakura was only wearing slippers on her feet, but she hardly noticed, she already felt numb. "Why? Why? Why?" She kept asking herself over & over. "I have so many questions that I need answered... but who could answer them?" She walked over a little bridge that she had been on so many times & turned & walked down to the stream. She looked at her reflection in the clear water. She looked so sad... she couldn't remember the last time she felt so upset... & she hated it.
She splashed the water with her hand angrily & when it settled there was another face with hers. She screamed & turned around, pushing whoever was behind her down. "I didn't mean to scare you!" It was Syaoran.
"You! Stay away from me! What are you? Some kind of stalker?!" She cried as she backed away from him quickly. "Ah!" she shouted as her footing on a slippery rock gave way.
"Watch out!" Syaoran grabbed her arm to pull her back but he was dragged into the water instead. He ended up lying across her stomach in freezing cold water. It seemed almost familiar. "Are you alright?" He looked up at her.
"Get off of me!" Sakura pushed him off & he landed face-first into the water. "Oh... I'm sorry." She said as he sat up in the stream and stared at her. That angry stare was somehow familiar as well.
"I was just trying to keep you from falling in the water." He said.
"I'm sorry." She shivered from the cold water.
"Here." He stood up & offered his hand to help her up. "Let me help you." She put her hand in his but when she stood up a sharp pain shot through her right foot. She yelped in & fell back down into the water. "What's wrong?!" Syaoran asked alarmed.
Sakura looked down at her foot and realized that her slipper had come off when she fell, she had stepped on a rather sharp rock & it had cut her foot. "I cut my foot." She said quietly.
"I'll take you home." Syaoran picked her up but she refused. She wiggled out of his arms and limping, put on her slipper & began walking away. "Sakura?"
"I'm fine on my own... I'm a big girl... leave me alone... I don't care if you love me.... I've obviously forgotten you for a reason!" She shouted as she limped away, leaving a shocked & soaking wet Syaoran still standing knee high in the water.
As she walked down her street she began trembling violently. It was only April, after all. There was still some snow on the ground, it was the middle of the night & she was in soaking wet clothes. "I'm so cold." Her foot shot pain up her leg & she fell again. "Shimatta!" She cried as she began to pick herself up off the ground. At least she was almost home... she was going to have a warm shower... her dad was going to be working all night on a lecture at the University, so she wouldn't be waking him up. Sakura felt two hands grab her shoulders & help lift her up.
"Syaoran!" she gasped. He was so surprised that he almost dropped her. "That's your name, right?" she asked as he nodded him head. "Why did you come after what I said to you?"
"I love you. I told you that before." He smiled at her as everything went black.
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"I- I love you!" A boy's voice shouted to her in her dream.
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Sakura woke up with a start & looked around the room before realizing where she was. She was... in her bathtub?! "It's so warm!" She splashed lightly & blew at the bubbles. "How did I get in here?" She wondered out loud. She looked at her foot that was propped up on the edge of the tub, with a bandage wrapped around it.
"You collapsed outside so I brought you in to get you warmed up."
"Ah!" Sakura shouted. She hadn't even seen Syaoran there before. "You pervert!" she screamed when she realized that she wasn't wearing CLOTHES in the bathtub & that he had been watching her to make sure that she would wake up.
"I didn't look I swear!" He jumped off his chair & took a few steps back. "I had my eyes closed! And I even put bubbles in the water!" He looked scared of her. "I just didn't want you to freeze to death outside!"
"Well..." She looked around the room, she was so flustered. She realized that he was still wet & shivering. "...hand me that towel & turn around. You need to warm up now." He did as she said. When she had wrapped to towel around herself she told him to have a shower & went to her bedroom to get changed.
She got dressed into her warm pyjamas put her wet clothes in the washing machine. The water in the stream was pretty clean, but it was still pretty dirty too. "He's gonna have wet clothes too. I should clean them & dry them for him." She thought.
"Syaoran! Syaoran!" She shouted as she stood in the bathroom. 'Was he always this deaf?' She suddenly got a wicked idea. "Syaoran!" She shouted as she pulled back the shower curtain.
"Sakura!" He shouted back as he grabbed the curtain from her & covered himself. "What are you doing?!"
She couldn't help but laugh. "Like I can believe an eighteen year old that says he's is in love with me kept his eyes closed the whole time! I was just getting my payback!" She grinned wickedly as his face turned bright red. "I brought you some dry clothes." She smiled. "I'll leave them on this chair here."
"Um... thanks... I guess." He said.
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Sakura was still blow-drying her hair when Syaoran came out of the bathroom dressed in her father's clothes. He was wearing shorts, a T-shirt & her dad's housecoat. She giggled when she saw him walk into her room with his head down. He was embarrassed.
She had to admit... he was pretty hot. "Cute." She laughed.
"What?"
"You can't look me in the eye anymore... it's funny, & kinda cute." She laughed. Her looked up at her, confused & in doing so turned bright red again & looked down. She fell down to her bed, hardly able to breathe.
"Stop laughing!" He pleaded, but was finding it hard to keep himself from laughing too. He gave in & fell to the floor & soon they were both in hysterics.
"Oops!" Sakura exclaimed as she found there was no more bed underneath her & she fell to the floor. Syaoran groaned & she realized that she had landed on top of him. "I'm sorry." She struggled to catch her breath & sat up on her bed. "Why the heck are we laughing?"
"I don't know! I guess just because we're so uncomfortable." He caught his breath and sat on her desk chair. "Stop staring at me!" he laughed as he turned around in the chair.
"Sorry!" She grinned. "So..." She struggled for something to say. "What did you say your family name is again?"
He winced when he realized that she still didn't remember him. "Li. Just like Meiling... we're cousins... remember?" He looked up at her.
"I wish I could." She smiled sympathetically. "My mind can't remember what my heart won't let it." She looked down & cleared her throat. Um... Syaoran? Thank you."
"Why?"
"For bringing me inside & making sure I was alright." She smiled & heard the buzzer sound on he washing machine. "I'll be right back." She left to put their now clean clothes in the dryer.
Syaoran leaned back on his chair & closed his eyes. He sighed. "I have to get her to remember me... but how?"
"Hey! I'm back." Sakura said as she hopped back onto her bed.
"Hey." He said as he sat back up in his chair.
"What were you doing?" She asked him.
Her eyes were so green, he had forgotten. "Um... nothing." He said as he turned a bit red again.
"Oh? Okay." She said looking away. "He's so familiar. I know that I knew him really well. I must of, he said that he helped me capture cards, that means that he was like a partner. But whenever I think about the cards I only remember Tomoyo, Meiling, Kero, & Yue being there.' They sat in silence for a while in the dark room. She began to realize how much she hated being alone at nights when her dad was at the university. Touya wasn't even home anymore.
"Hey Syaoran?" Sakura began to ask.
"Yes?" He looked up at her anxiously.
"Nothing." She smiled. She mentally kicked herself. 'You can't ask him to stay the night just because you're scared! You still don't know him! Even if you remember what he was like when he was 10, it means nothing. He could have changed a lot since then, remember Sakura: he's not a boy anymore...' She gulped audibly catching a strange look from Syaoran. 'He's a man.' She thought. "A man is like a wild animal that lives on instinct."
"What?!" Syaoran looked up at her.
"What? I didn't say anything!" She blushed.
"I could have sworn that I heard you say "A man-" He was cut off.
"Of course not! I'm going to go check on the clothes! I'll be right back!" She quickly ran out of the room.
It wasn't until she got downstairs & saw that the clothes were still damp that a thought struck her. "How did I know he was ten when I knew him?" she asked herself as she remembered her thought before. She ran up the stairs & leapt onto her bed happily. "I knew you when I was ten!"
"Yes..."
"I'm remembering a little bit." She smiled.
"Great!" He smiled with her. "So... are my clothes dry yet?"
"No... not yet. They should be ready in another 10 minutes."
He smiled & sighed.
"What?" Sakura asked him, obviously confused.
"I'm just relieved that you're not attacking me for being in your room." He laughed.
"I guess I have been a little high strung tonight, huh?"
"A little?" He grinned at her.
"Okay... a lot. But you really don't know what this feels like do you?" She said turning serious & staring into his eyes. "I've felt so... incomplete, for so long. And then you show up & I can't remember you, & it makes me start to wonder if you're what's been missing. But it also makes me wonder that maybe I had a reason for not remembering you all these years. My mind is so clouded up I can't think straight! I feel like a puzzle... with a missing piece." She closed her eyes & began to cry.
"Sakura." His voice didn't sound sympathetic, it sounded, empathetic? She felt Syaoran sit next to her on the bed. "I DO know what it feels like... or at least I did."
"What do you mean?" She looked up at him with glassy eyes.
"When I left, I left a part of me here with you, I left you my heart." He put his arms around her & pulled her closer. "I wasn't whole back in Hong Kong... I missed you too much. When I told Meiling that it was your birthday soon she finally got fed up & made her plans to get us to meet again. So, I do know how you feel, but I don't feel that way anymore, because I'm with you again."
Sakura was about to say something... but... *BUZZ!* "Shimatta!" "I'll be right back." She sighed. "It's probably all for the best, I don't know what I could say to him, I can't return his feelings, not yet." She thought as she put the dry clothes in a basket & brought them back upstairs. Syaoran got changed in the bathroom.
"I guess I should be going now." He said as he stood at the doorway of her room. "Thanks for washing my clothes, I'll let you get some sleep now." He began to walk down the stairs.
'Oh no! I'm going to be all alone in the house? You're not getting away so easily, not when I'm just starting to remember who you are!' "Syaoran!" She ran down her stairs after him & tripped at the bottom. She went flying & he caught her just in time. "Do you want to stay?" she asked quietly as he helped her find her footing.
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I'll stop there for now... So, what do you think so far? PLEASE R&R! I don't know if the story is any good if nobody replies! Arigatou for reading anyway! (I don't think many people are reading it, I think that it just sort of got lost in the crowd of stories. ,-_-, *sob*)
Chapter 5 will be up soon!