Title: Interludes
Summary: Syaoran and Sakura go on a date.
Warning: End of series spoilers.
They went on three dates — more for the sake of appearances than anything else. They knew already from the time they first met (from before they were born) that they loved one another, needed one another, were destined to spend the rest of their lives together. They knew it like they knew how to breathe, how to walk, the shapes of their own faces in the mirror: they were made for one another.
But try explaining that to your parents. Or to your overprotective older brother, for that matter.
So they dated for a while. Twice while Sakura's class was still in Hong Kong, and then a third time when Syaoran flew over to visit her in Japan. They went to parks, to movies, ate hamburgers and ice cream, and somehow every time afternoon stretched into evening stretched into night while they walked slowly around the pond, hand in hand, talking softly.
For as much as Sakura had been ready to run to Syaoran's arms as soon as she saw him, there was much to catch up on. They had each lived lives of their own, seperate and special, in this world where they had been reborn. There was a lot to get to know. So they talked about sisters and brothers, schools and friends and hobbies and magic. And since they were being so conscious of appearances, they very carefully did not speak of other things: of death and rebirth and mad sorcerers, of murder and children and time warped all out of shape.
They could not forget all the pain that they had left behind them, nor that which was still to come. But for the moment, at least, they had each other.
~to be continued...