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Chapter Fourteen: Something
Syaoran couldn't remember being this happy.
All his life he had been told what to do. He had to be the perfect son and the perfect warrior. Then when his modeling career started he had to be the perfect model, and then that turned into the perfect actor. He grew weary of wearing masks.
With every new mask he put on he found it harder remember who was truly the real Syaoran. However, now Syaoran could say with absolute certainty that he now knew who he was.
He knew who to thank for that as well.
Currently she was playing at the piano he had bought for her in the living room. The afternoon sun came streaming through the window, and made her glow as she played. He couldn't help but to stand and watch her for a moment.
She would play a couple of keys, stop, and then frown. She would scribble or scratch something out, and then begin again. Her hair was up in a messy bun, she had no makeup on, and she wore some baggy overalls with a white tank top underneath it. Syaoran never thought she looked more beautiful. To think someone like her loved him.
His ears perked as he heard her start to play again.
Where you are, I will be there too
Where you go, I will go there too
I smile for you every day, I pray for you
With thoughts of you, I fall asleep I open my eyes as I call for you
You protect me by my side and you embrace me
You are my heaven
You're my only one way
Only for you I am thankful that I am next to you
You're the only one babe
You taught me love in this harsh world I am happy with you alone
Heaven Heaven Heaven Heaven Heaven
If we're together we will never cry never never cry
Heaven Heaven Heaven Heaven Heaven
Forever, together never gonna be alone
Not for the first time Syaoran wondered again why he was the one with the recording contract. Watching her play was like watching Michelangelo sculpt. It was obvious that this was what she was meant to do. Suddenly an idea occurred to him and he smiled.
As if sensing him behind her Sakura stopped playing, and turned to him smiling. "Sorry, I didn't know you were home already."
"That's my favorite one yet," Syaoran said coming, and sitting next to her on the bench.
She blushed embarrassed. "Well you can say I was inspired," she grinned.
"Oh? And who could have done that?" he asked playfully snaking an arm around her waist.
Sakura couldn't help but to have her heart speed up. "Oh just some guy," she tried to say nonchalantly, but squealed when he picked her up, and sat her on the lid of the piano in front of him.
She felt her blush rising as he stared at her with smoldering amber eyes. He looked especially good looking today with his messy hair, and white button down shirt. She gulped and shook her head trying to dispel the thoughts. However, those thoughts flew out the door when he leaned in and kissed her.
She felt herself giving in before she even had time to process it. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her closer, and she in turn pulled his head closer to her.
Both were breathing pretty heavily when Sakura suddenly pulled away. They still hadn't… well… done anything not since the first time anyway.
"What's wrong?" he asked staring up at her.
She was embarrassed to see that she had made quick work of his shirt, and it was now thrown on the floor. It was hard to concentrate when he didn't have a top on.
"Um, well-"was her intelligent response.
"I thought we said we didn't care," Syaoran said pulling her off the lid, and sitting her on his lap.
If she found it hard to concentrate before it was now even worse. Straddling him like this, and feeling his rock hard muscles beneath her hands.
"I know but-"Sakura could barely get out before he kissed her again, and this time she did not pull away.
He made quick work of her overalls, and he was working on getting her tank top off when the doorbell sounded.
"Syaoran, the door-"she said in between kisses.
"Screw the door," he growled into her ear causing her to shiver.
She was just about to give in again when the doorbell went off again this time more persistent.
"Dammit," he said leaning back from her. He sighed letting her slide off of him. Cursing all the way to the door, and not bothering to put back on his shirt, he threw open the door.
He was ready to commit murder if it was only Wei or some delivery guy leaving a coupon. So you could imagine when to his surprise when he was greeted by a tall, dark haired man that was also wearing a look of surprise.
"Who are you?" Syaoran asked, but was stunned when the man asked the same question.
"Who are you?!"
Another man peeked around behind the dark haired one, and smiled pleasantly. He was of a slighter build with lighter hair, glasses, and warm brown eyes.
"Sorry we must have got the wrong address. We are looking for a Kinomoto Sakura. Do you know which floor she lives on?"
Before Syaoran could answer Sakura's surprised voice sounded behind him. "Oni-chan?!"
It was then that Syaoran remembered that Sakura had an older brother. However, he was too late to remember when she also told him that Touya would kill him if he ever found out about their marriage.
Touya quickly assessed the situation. There was his baby sister standing in just a white tank top and underwear, and here was this half dressed man. Touya pounced before Syaoran could even move.
"ONI-CHAN!" Sakura screamed.
"TOYA!" the other man also yelled.
Touya had Syaoran pinned up to the nearest wall with a look of death in his eyes. "How dare you dishonor my sister!" he said rounding back ready to punch Syaoran.
Syaoran was too stunned to even try to defend himself. All his martial arts training completely went out the window.
Yukito managed to pull Touya back just enough for Sakura to jump in front of Syaoran.
"Get away, Sakura!" Touya growled throwing Yukito off.
"No I will not get away!" Sakura said defiantly covering Syaoran the best she could with her small frame.
"I swear to god, Sakura-"Touya said again but was cut off.
"He's my husband!" she yelled before she could stop herself.
The room went completely silent. Touya looked as if all the blood had drained right out of him.
"H-Husband?" he said not quite believing it. It was then that he noticed the shiny diamond on her left hand.
"Yes," Sakura said standing up straighter. "He's my husband, and I love him."
Syaoran could only stare in disbelief from Sakura to her murderous brother.
"Well then this is a happy occasion, Toya!"
Sakura turned to the new voice, and smiled widely. "Yukito-san!" she said joyously springing forward and hugging him.
Now it was Syaoran's turn to get a murderous look.
Touya quickly pulled them apart however, and said, adverting his gaze, "Perhaps you should put some clothes on, and then we can discuss this."
Sakura looked down at her underwear and went beet red. "HOEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
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Syaoran had been in some awkward situations before. It came with the territory of being an Asian mega-star such as running into an ex co-star that he might have hooked up with. Or accidently running into fans on his morning runs.
But never had he been put into a situation like this. Currently he was sitting on a couch across from the older brother of the woman he loved.
Touya still hadn't taken his eyes off of him. If looks could kill Syaoran knew that he would have been dead a long time ago.
At least the other one, Yukito, was smiling pleasantly and chatted away.
"So we got your address from Eriol-kun," Yukito was saying taking a bite out of the cookies that Sakura had made. "You could imagine our surprise when he informed us that you were not living with him and Tomoyo."
Sakura choked on her cookie, and had to take a big swallow of her tea. Syaoran glowered at the floor. That be speckled freak had did this on purpose.
"So let me get this straight," Touya said finally taking his eyes off of Syaoran. "You tell father you want to go to China to visit Tomoyo. Next thing we know you are calling, and saying that you are extending your stay. Now, I come here to finally take you home, and instead I find you married."
"Well father did say he wanted me to experience the culture?" Sakura tried to say playfully, but instead it came out as a squeak.
Touya's dark eyes darted over to Syaoran again. "Yeah the culture."
"Sorry to be so rude, Syaoran, wasn't it? I'm Tsukishiro Yukito and this is Sakura's older brother Kinomoto Touya," Yukito said bowing politely.
Syaoran bowed stiffly. "Li Syaoran."
At this Touya's head snapped up. "Did you say Li?"
Sakura could feel herself beginning to sweat. "Um yes! Maybe you've heard of him! He's a huge star you know," Sakura said laughing rather loudly.
Touya's dark eyes narrowed even more. "Can't say I have."
Syaoran had to stop himself from rolling his eyes. Like brother like sister he supposed.
"Li as in the Li Group?" Touya asked with an almost dangerous tone.
Sakura looked at Syaoran helplessly. "Yes," Syaoran finally managed to answer. "However I don't do much with the business. I'm in entertainment as you heard before."
"Your father wouldn't be… Ryuuren would it?"
It was then that Sakura knew with absolute certainty that Touya knew everything. She felt her heart sinking to the floor like the Titanic.
And before she knew what was happening she was telling him everything from the beginning. Syaoran could only sit, and listen as Sakura rambled at top speed.
"So we didn't know!" Sakura explained. "We didn't know until after we got married-"
"Sakura I need to speak with you. Alone," he said glowering at Syaoran. Before she could protest, he had grabbed her and dragged out onto the back patio.
Syaoran was left alone with Yukito.
"Beautiful place you got here," Yukito said smiling happily.
Syaoran was taken aback by how different him and Touya were. "So uh, how do you know Sakura and Touya?"
It was Yukito's turn to look a little uncomfortable. "Well Touya and I met in college. We were in medical school together. My parents lived out of state so I spent a lot of my free time over at Touya's house with his family. They took me in as one of their own. That's where I first met Sakura. She had just finished her sophomore year of college. She just broke up with, oh what was his name, oh yes Jason-"
Syaoran couldn't help but to twitch uncomfortably. Jason? Who was this Jason guy?
"Sakura was feeling down after her break up so I took her out for ice cream. And so we've been pretty close ever since."
Syaoran had a feeling there was something else that wasn't being said. It was then that he remembered a conversation he had with Tomoyo not too long ago.
"Has Sakura loved before?" he had asked her.
Tomoyo looked a little uncomfortable but she answered anyway. "Well of course she has had boyfriends. I mean someone as cute as Sakura-chan has always had someone, but if you mean anyone she felt as serious about before you then… yes."
Syaoran remembered when he had first met Sakura, and he sneaked a peek into her notebook. He recalled the rather sad song she had written.
"She must have loved him a lot," he said. "She had written and really sad song about him."
"Yeah," Tomoyo said smiling sadly into her drink. "She did but sadly he didn't feel the same way about her."
Syaoran couldn't imagine anyone not falling for Sakura. "What happened?" he asked.
"Well if you must know. She confessed her feelings, but he told her that what she felt for him was like what she felt for her father-"
"What?!" Syaoran said appalled.
Tomoyo nodded. "I know. I agree, but anyway Sakura then found out later that the reason he didn't have feelings for her was because he had feelings for her… brother."
Syaoran remembered that he had sat stunned.
"And Sakura loves her brother, and she loves Yuki dearly as well. So she would never come in between them. So instead she poured her heart out the only way she knows how… through music."
Yuki… staring at the young man before him Syaoran knew this was who Tomoyo had been talking about. He couldn't help but to size him up. He was definitely taller than Yuki. He was also more manly looking where Yuki looked more boyish. Syaoran was more wide and muscular where Yuki was slight framed. But there was definitely an old soul quality to him that Syaoran couldn't help but to be drawn towards as well.
"Don't let Touya scare you," Yukito was saying. "He's all bark and no bite."
"Could have fooled me," Syaoran muttered.
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Out on the patio Sakura was trying her best not to cry.
"Sakura, you do know who he is, right?" Touya was saying.
"Yes! Okay?! We know everything-"
"Then how could you stay married to him?!" Touya was yelling now. "You know what his father did to our family-"
"He didn't mean to! Neither did mother-"
Touya ran his hands threw his hair. "You weren't there, Sakura, but I was. I saw what this guy did to her; how she came back home with so much guilt. He almost ruined their marriage you know-"
"Go ahead and say it," Sakura said tears streaming from her eyes. "I almost ruined their marriage."
"You? What are you talking about-"
"Is it a coincidence that I came along nine months after? I'm not stupid Touya. I can do the math-"
"You can't possibly think- no Sakura," Touya said grabbing her shoulders.
"That is exactly what I think," she said wrenching herself free crying freely now she looked down. "And he pretty much confirmed it."
"No. I refuse to believe it!" Touya said shaking his head in disbelief. But seeing his sister cry like this he knew she must believe it. "If you believe that then again why are you staying with this brat?!" he said jerking his head in Syaoran's direction.
"Because I love him," she answered simply.
"Then there you go. I refuse to believe it. Besides, you guys look nothing alike-"seeing her continue to cry he sighed heavily and pulled her into a hug. "Sakura, listen to me. You have so much of dad in you it's ridiculous. You got all of his and mom's good traits-"
"But I can't cook," she sniffled.
"Well besides that," Touya said grinning. Getting more serious he asked, "But just to be sure have you done a paternity test?"
Sakura nodded. "We should know the results any day now."
"And what does your gut tell you?" when she looked at him confused he continued. "You know both you and I got some of mom's sixth sense. So be honest, what do you really feel?"
"That Syaoran is not my brother," Sakura said. There she finally said it out loud. Once it was out it was like her heart could explode with happiness.
"And have you ever known me to be wrong?" Sakura shook her head no. "Well there you go. No more tears now."
Sakura couldn't help but to laugh. "I didn't think you would be so understanding-"
"Oh I still don't like it," Touya said glaring in Syaoran's general direction. "But if you say you love him then there is nothing I can do."
"Thank you oni-chan," she said hugging him tightly.
"You're welcome, Kaijou," he said using his old nickname for her.
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Touya and Yukito had ended up staying for the entire week. At first when Touya announced they would be staying with them he quickly objected, but of course Sakura said they could and that was the end of it.
For an entire week Syaoran was forced to endure Touya's constant glares. He also had to put up with Yukito-san this, Yukito-san that, and quite frankly he was more than happy when it was finally time to drop them off at the airport.
Sakura promised that she would bring Syaoran to the states soon to meet father, and with some lasts goodbyes they were finally gone.
However, Syaoran didn't even get to rest because later that night was his parents' masquerade ball.
He shook his head at Meilin's texts as he and Sakura entered the loft once more. Meilin was introducing her fiancé tonight, some Japanese computer nerd, and she was making sure that Syaoran and Sakura were in fact planning on attending.
Even if Syaoran wanted to get out of it he couldn't. Not only was the entire Li Group going to be present tonight but also the board of trustees and all the big stock holders. Not to mention his record producer as well a few executives from his agency. There was also going to be mass amounts of press because tonight he would debut his first single. He shuddered just thinking about it.
"What's wrong?" Sakura asked.
"Nothing just thinking about tonight is all," he said taking off his jacket.
Sakura frowned. She knew how stressed out he must be. Tonight was going to be a big night for him. He was going to be performing for the first time, and their official announcement of his succession to the Li Group was also going to be announced.
Stocks in the company had sky rocketed since their marriage, and business was booming even more so than before. Syaoran's popularity was also at an all time high. His family had agreed that Syaoran could be signed for one more year with the agency, to complete his tour, but after his tour he would finally take over the company.
Sakura had asked him if was sad to leave the entertainment industry.
"No," he had answered her. "I'm actually kind of relieved."
"Relieved?" Sakura asked bewildered.
"All I've been doing is running away, and I'm tired of running away," taking her hand he had said, "I don't need these masks anymore. I know what's truly myself, and what's important to me and that's all the matters."
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Later that night Sakura and Syaoran arrived at the party, and were greeted with the flashes of one million cameras. She was used to all the attention by now, and smiled and waved like she was trained to do.
The two posed for some pictures, and Syaoran leaned down and whispered, "You look beautiful."
She blushed. Her dress was white with a fitted bust with a heart neckline with beautiful rose gold detail. The rest of the dress fanned out prettily, and of course a masquerade event wouldn't be complete without a mask. Hers was white and gold with a beautiful large golden butterfly adorned towards the top. In contrast Syaoran wore a black tuxedo with a black mask. All in all Tomoyo had outdone herself.
Once inside, Syaoran was quickly steered away to go mingle with some of the important people of the Li Group.
"Sakura-chan!" Meilin said happily running up to her and giving her a hug.
"Meilin!" Sakura greeted. "You look gorgeous!" Sakura said taking in Meilin's deep red, ruffled dress with black accents.
"Thank you," she said smiling. "Sakura I would like you to meet my fiancé, Mizuki Kai," she introduced.
Meilin and Sakura texted often, while Meilin was away on her many business trips. So she had heard a lot about Kai, but was unprepared for the man that greeted her.
He had bright blue, electric hair that was currently slicked back. His ears were pierced all over, and instead of a mask he optioned instead for a pair of sunglasses. Currently he slid these sunglasses off, and smiled at Sakura with gorgeous, stormy, grey eyes.
"Sakura, nice to meet you finally," he said kissing the top of her hand. She could only stutter. Seeing the situation Syaoran quickly flew back to her side. Seeing Syaoran, Kai immediately enveloped him into a big hug. "Syao-chan! It's so nice to finally meet you as well!"
"Syao-" Meilin began.
"-chan?" Sakura finished.
Syaoran was so shocked he couldn't move. He didn't allow anyone to hug him. The only person he let touch him was Sakura, and sometimes Meilin.
Drawing back Kai took Meilin by the waist and beamed.
"So this is the computer nerd?" Syaoran asked none too kindly.
"Syaoran!" Sakura hissed nudging him.
"Syaoran I told you he is the owner of Mizuki Enterprises. It's the largest technological firm in Japan-"
"Asia," Kai corrected. "Well actually even into the states now."
"I see…" Syaoran said. "So how did you…?"
"Meet?" Kai finished. "Well it's a true love story let me tell you-"
"Oh god, please spare them the fluff and get to the chase," Meilin rolled her eyes. "Basically I made fun of his food, made him food, he fell for me, and now here we are."
Sakura giggled. Of course she knew the whole story through her many text and phone calls with Meilin. Even though the two seemed like complete opposites they really were perfect for one another.
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Da-Xie sat with her glass of wine and glared down at the festivities. She sat with the record producer as he laughed loudly with his arm draped over some bimbo with a too tight dress.
The negotiations were done, and there was nothing she could do about it. Instead of extending out Syaoran's contract for two more years it was now down to one. It all depended if Syaoran agreed to it which she knew he was going to. All her hard work, blood, sweat, and tears for the last five years was about to amount to nothing.
However, she had a plan she thought recalling her last telephone conversation. She had learned that Sakura's mother was Amamiya Nadeshiko, and that she had been a lover of Syaoran's father. They had a little… tryst… as it were. She also learned that Syaoran, Leiyun, and Sakura knew about this because right now there was a paternity test being done.
If she was in fact related to Syaoran, it was true that it would be career ending for Syaoran. Not just in the entertainment industry but also for the Li Group. There was no way he or the group could ever recover from something like that. It would be the scandal of the century.
Seeing a text she looked down to see her contact had finally arrived. Setting down her wine she walked outside into the brisk November air, and smiled when she saw her contact holding a large manila envelope.
"I was able to intercept it," he said handing it over.
"Excellent," she said taking it from him. "And you made sure this is correct right? There is no mistake?"
"None," he said.
"Very well," she said handing over his money.
Smiling triumphantly she opened the envelope, and pulled out the simple white paper that had control over her destiny.
Quickly opening she scanned through the words quickly before getting to the very bottom. In conclusion, I can confirm that in the case of Li Ryuuren and Kinomoto Sakura there is a zero match.
Her hands started to shake. And she read the words again just to be sure.
"They aren't brother and sister. Ryuuren is not her father."
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Author's Note:
Something. I think this song perfectly describes how Syaoran feels about Sakura. Especially when he was standing and watching her play the piano. I love this song.
Also, the other song featured in this chapter is Heaven by Ailee. I would really recommend Youtubeing this song. There will be more about this song and its importance in the next chapter.
So! Touya finally found out about Sakura's marriage. I loved writing that whole scene. I had such a fun time with it.
Also, Meilin's fiancé Kai Mizuki, I do not own. I have borrowed him from the Fanfiction: The New Trials of Card Captor Sakura and Friends by Wish-chan. This fanfiction is epic, and I cannot recommend it enough. I just cannot picture Meilin with anyone else so I have borrowed him again.
So! Big revelation! Thank you for everyone that stood by me up until this point. I know it must have been confusing and uncomfortable, but I hope you now see where I was going with it. But what does Da-Xie have planned? Next chapter is the big climax! I hope you're ready!
Please read and review!