Summary: To him, the idea of getting engage was the most irritating part of being the heir of his clan, but he always end up breaking the engagement after some amount of time given to him… But all changes when he was engaged to the man-hater Kinomoto Sakura…AU
Disclaimer: I do not own the marvelous Card Captor Sakura…
Author's note: Thanks to those who reviewed! I was enjoying my vacation too much that I almost forgot I had a fic to continue. I apologize to my readers! To those who asked me about my language background, I speak Tagalog, a native language for Filipinos. I hope my readers like this chapter!
Mr. Perfect and Ms. Man-hater
By: pLaTiNuMHeArT
"Akito…" Li said to himself, identifying the man who was in front of his fiancé.
He clenched his fist in anger knowing this was the person that changed Sakura for the worst. The warrior maintained his stance and waited for Sakura to react viciously towards this guy. He controlled his temper as he observed the awkward scene.
"How are you doing Sakura?" The suited man, Akito, asked in a husky tone.
He was leaning to close to Sakura that she most definitely find uncomfortable. She was still in shock to react and her lips only mouthed his name. "Akito…"
"I see you haven't forgotten about me." He said softly with a smile plastered on his lips.
The two looked at each others eyes, one with an amused one the other with fear evident in it. Usually Sakura would have charged at this repulsive person who was rather very close to her. She found out hard even to say words, words that may put her into deeper despair.
"What are you doing here?" She finally asked but fear in her voice.
"Isn't it obvious Sakura? I'm here to see you…" He said lowly, his eyes piercing her emerald orbs as if paralyzing her.
He held her cheek with his left hand, softly using his thumb to caress her cheeks. He leaned closer; taking advantage of Sakura's paralyzed form. His eyes locked with hers as if hypnotizing her not to move.
Inches by inches he leaned to her delicate pinkish lips. The gap between their mouths soon came into centimeters and yet Sakura was unable to move a muscle. She closes her eyes in fear of the upcoming act, she was too scared to even move and look at his handsome face.
Seeing her eyes closed, Akito closed his eyes too expecting her soft lips into his. This predicament soon was impeded by a briskly hand on his left hand that held Sakura's cheeks.
"What the hell are you doing!" A male voice dangerously hissed.
Sakura opened her eyes too see the back of someone with chestnut-colored locks, immediately recognizing that voice. He saw the figure gripping Akito's wrist firmly.
Akito glared menacingly at the boy in front of him as he lashed away his left hand.
"Who the hell are you!" Akito demanded with anger in his tone.
Li Syaoran, Sakura's fiancé, didn't fazed at the venomous glare he was giving him since he was used being glared at by Sakura.
"I should ask you the same thing." Syaoran answered coolly glaring at him with the same intensity as Akito's.
Sakura looked at his hair as he tries to defend her from Akito even though she was always mean to him and was ignoring him for the past week.
"Syaoran…" She spoke his name softly, forgetting that she told herself never to call him that.
The warrior was surprised at the sudden change of name calling, he slowly looked at his left to see Sakura looking at him with a soft eyes. He smiled at her, a smile telling her that everything would be alright.
"Feisty little boy. You don't know who you are dealing with." Akito held up his chin as if he was looking down at Syaoran.
"I'm not a boy!" Syaoran bitingly replied. "I think it's the other way around, you're the one who should know who you are dealing with."
"Such impudent words coming from a scrawny brat, you don't know me boy." Akito smirked feeling the upper hand.
The warrior ignored the 'boy' and focused on how to kick his ass out of the vicinity without violence. This would be a great issue that the heir to the famous Li Clan would be recklessly fighting in another country, and besides he was still at school and breaking the rules of the school would greatly wounded his reputation.
"Syaoran, he knows martial arts please don't fight… You'll only get hurt." Sakura inquired with pleading eyes that Li was surprised to witness.
He looked at her for a moment and then smiled at her. Sakura actually cared for him. Now he was more motivated to fight even though it's against the rules of a student.
Screw the rules! He shouted in his mind.
Akito prepared his fighting stance as his left fist raise and his right fist beside his waist. His face filled with determination and confidence that he would certainly break his opponent's bones.
Syaoran looked at his fiancé again and smiled carefree.
"Trust me…" He said then looked at his enemy at hand.
Those two words echoed in her mind as she reminisce his existence to her, she finally figured out that Li Syaoran is very different from other boys she have encountered. Trust, which was the word that the last thing she would do for a man, but today she definitely was having second thoughts.
Making her mind up she nodded behind his back. "I trust you…" She said enough for Syaoran to hear.
Syaoran smiled hearing that soft voice of Sakura but his radiant smile soon vanished as soon as he looked at his foe. He raised his left fist in front of his heart and an open palm on his right.
"You dare touch my fiancé like that again I swear I'll kill you." He declared glaring at Akito.
Somehow when he said those words, something stirred inside Sakura she couldn't explain. She just watched her fiancé make his own stance and to her surprise at Akito's reaction.
"Fiancé!" Akito's face was full of confusion and his stance slowly dropped.
Even though Akito's stance was dropping, Li didn't let his guard down and waited for more of what Akito has to say. He was a little relieved that the event is turning out well rather than the supposed battle he predicted.
Akito looked at his opponents back and looked at Sakura's serene face, clearly seeing the trust she gave to this boy who intruded his attempt to kiss his precious Sakura.
"I see…" With that he turned his back to Syaoran and slowly walked away.
"I don't have any reason now to fight you boy." Akito said while walking away.
"It's nice to see you again Sakura." His dark eyes looked at Sakura. He smiled at her as if he was just a normal acquaintance to her. He left them short after smiling but not before winking at her and lowly said: "I hope we would meet again…"
Syaoran just stood there, stunned at the sudden arrival of Akito and his sudden departure. He should have squeezed information from him for what is his relation to Sakura. His train of thoughts soon disappeared as he heard soft sniffle behind him. He looked Sakura who was now sitting on the grass trying not to cry.
"Sakura…" Li started looking at Sakura with soft eyes.
"Don't look at me like that; I don't need you to pity me." She said then looked down sniffling, still trying not to cry in front of her fiancé.
"I do not pity you…" Li corrected her with a soft voice.
He sat down in front of Sakura feeling the need for silence to envelope them; he figured out that saying something right now would be the best.
Li Syaoran waited for minutes and still hears her sniffle; he knows she was trying hard not to cry in front of him. Syaoran looked at the grass and played with one of them.
"Why don't you say anything…?" He said, his bangs hiding his eyes from Sakura. She looked at his hair and then looked down.
"The Sakura I know would most likely say 'Leave me alone.' or something along those lines." He continued to play with the grass not wanting to see too her gloomy face, he wasn't used to this awkward situation with her.
He finally looked at her with a reassuring smile in his lips. "Right…?"
Sakura looked at him and smiled a little at his attempt to cheer her up. Yet, her smile was gone as soon as it came and then she looked down at the grass then played with it too.
"I never expected Akito to appear here." She said making Syaoran stayed in silence, finally he could somehow got information about this Akito guy.
She crushed the grass in her hands and a bitter expression appeared on her delicate face. "He dumped me for a flirty foreigner he met at his company."
Syaoran was not surprised at this since that was the only reason he could come up with her attitude problem. He continued to stay in silence as he looked at Sakura who he thinks is reminded of her past.
"I love him so badly at those times… He was friends with Touya-niichan and Yukito-san…" She narrated as she continues to play with the grasses.
Li figured out that Touya is her brother and Yukito and Akito must be his buddies.
"I was fourteen and 'Nii-chan, Yukito-san and Akito were nineteen at that time. I had a large crush over Yukito-san but Akito-san was extra sweet with me that I eventually fell for him." A small smile appeared on her lips as she remembered those bitter sweet memories of her and Akito.
She stopped her talking not wanting to continue. Li remained silent and waited for her to say more but what greeted him were dead silence and the soft sound of leaves rustling.
"I hate men… They just toyed with a woman's heart then throw it away like trash…" She said bitterly.
This time Syaoran found his voice and defend his own species. "You are generalizing Sakura… not all are like that…"
"That's what you say because you are a male and you would certainly defend them." She said with a grave tone.
"I'm certainly not one of those you are describing…" he said looking at her with a stern look.
She gave him the same expression that started their staring contest.
"You are still upset about a dumping!" Syaoran said all of a sudden. She merely looked away from him.
"If I had your ideology about relationships then I should have been a woman-hater by now." He declared looking at the orange sunset sky.
"You've been dumped?" Sakura inquired looking at him skeptically.
"Damn right! My intelligence and looks didn't faze her…" He pronounced with a happy tone.
"With an ego like that, who would not dump you…?" Sakura actually laughed after the event that happened a few minutes ago.
"She a little weird, she's still stuck in the past where as she should enjoy the present and look forward for the future. She's twisted if you ask me. She's beautiful and intelligent and yet she isn't happy. Heck she's the only girl in the world that would most likely turn my world into hell." He looked away from her as he said that, a laughed escaped his lips.
Sakura looked at the side of his face. "Who's the girl who dumped you?" She asked feeling that she somehow knows who the girl is.
He looked at her making eye contact and then smiled at her. "She's a feisty little girl named Kinomoto Sakura."
She just looked at him in disbelief. "I never dumped you." She said raising an eyebrow.
Syaoran shook his head and laughed softly. "You never really dumped me, but when I'm doing something good to you, you never appreciate it, well I actually interpreted that as dumping me."
She looked away feeling embarrassed now at her rude attitude towards him. Then she looked down at the ground returning to her gloomy self.
"I don't want to trust man; I want to be strong…" She said making Syaoran look at her with a serious face. "I want to be strong, strong enough to handle myself…"
"I want to stand on my own, but all was in vain when I saw Akito…" She continued tears slowly came out at the edge of her eyes.
"I realize I was still afraid of him, at that moment he was about to kiss me… I couldn't move, too weak to protest, I'm pathetic…" She whips her eyes to prevent her from crying.
"Stupid tears…" She cursed hating to cry.
He offered her a white handkerchief which she gladly took. Whipping her eyes with the hankie, she continued to sniffle.
"You're strong Sakura…" Li said suddenly making Sakura looked at him with tears threatening to spill more from her emerald eyes.
"Strong enough to not to cry in front of Akito, to stand in the midst of emotional wounds, to change to see something other than fantasy, strong enough to realize that reality is harsh, strong enough to cry…" He said looking at her eyes.
"Strong enough to cry…?" She asked confused, she thought crying would only make you weak on the eyes of people.
"My mother told me that a person is very strong when that person is in touch with his/her emotions. Crying doesn't degrade anyone, it's natural for a human to cry." He explained.
Sakura looked down at the grass still sitting in it, processing Syaoran's words. All of a sudden she felt a sudden pull and landed on a warm body, Syaoran's body.
"So don't hesitate to cry, cry to your hearts content, let it all out…" He whispered as he tightly embraced Sakura, his left on her waist and his right on her shoulders.
She couldn't bottle up it anymore, she cried in his uniform. She banged her fist softly on his chest that Syaoran found smiling. She returned the embrace and continued to sob on his chest. She tightened her hold on his back as if not wanting to let go.
A few minutes past and Sakura and Syaoran separated from the embrace. She whipped the last tear on her right eye with his white handkerchief.
"So are we friends…?" Syaoran questioned making Sakura look at him.
"Let me think about it…" She laughed at the frown he gave her.
Although that was her answer, he new there was a new relationship was formed between the two of them. Finally after tons of curses, a truck load of insults and a bundle of tricks, they had become friends.
They looked at each other for a moment and Sakura smiled at him widely.
"You look beautiful when you smile Sakura." He blurted out his thoughts automatically Sakura blushed and looked away.
Syaoran laughed at this reaction that earned him a glare from Sakura.
He stopped laughing and stood up followed by Sakura. She was blushing while looking down as if trying to find her voice. He slowly walked away.
"Um… ah… Li…?" She softly said but Syaoran didn't stop on his tracks.
"Li… Li!" Still Syaoran kept on walking away.
"Syaoran!" She shouted, now her fiancé stopped and smiled at her crimson face.
"Yes?" He said amusement on his amber eyes.
She glared at him for his mischievous deeds to torment her. The two looked at each other for a while that Sakura almost forgot what she was about to say.
"Thank you…" She said softly looking away from him whit tints of pink remained on her pretty face.
Syaoran didn't know if she was thanking him for saving her from Akito or the comforting part. Nevertheless he smiled at her. "What are friends for?"
Again she smiled at him, a true smile she hasn't done to a guy for such a long time.
He looked at her seeing the other part of Sakura, the happy Sakura. With one last thought, he head back to his locker to get his things.
The warrior didn't acquire that much information about Akito and he knows there was a deeper reason behind but he was very grateful that he has acquired something better than that; Sakura's friendship.
Syaoran recalled the smile she gave her.
At that time, I thought I saw your very first beautiful smile. You're very beautiful Sakura, inside out…
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