Chapter 20. Standing In Between Him and Her
They all stared at the Syaoran look a like, through the downstairs window. Sakura blushed a slight pink, 'Is he here for … me?' She thought to herself with a desire to open the door and run up to him. Syaoran stared at Sakura's blushing pink cheeks. He averted his gaze towards his look a like, he stared at him with hatred. 'Could it be Eriol was right? Even if Sakura was his childhood sweetheart, which he has been waiting for, for 13 years, already have a boyfriend?' He thought to himself as he watched Sakura's every move. "Who the heck is that?" Eriol asked, finally breaking the silence. Everyone looked at Eriol and shrugged.

"I dunno." They all said in unison. Sakura was edging towards the door, Syaoran glanced at his watch, "Well, whatta yeah know? 7:30 already? Time for dinner!" Syaoran said ushering all of them into the kitchen. "B—W---H---" Sakura asked stuttering. 'But what if he leaves?' She thought to herself looking at the window as Syaoran pushed her into the kitchen. While Sakura and Meiling were setting the table, and Syaoran was ordering some food, Eriol grabbed Madison's hand and led her into the living room. Madison blushed, "Uh..?" Was all she could say, 'Grr. How stupid can you be!' Madison mentally scolded herself. Eriol looked at her strait in the eyes, 'Oh my god. He's going to ask me to be his girlfriend!' Madison thought happily. Eriol looked at her amethyst eyes and inhaled, 'This is going to so shock her.' he thought to himself as he exhaled… "He likes her." Madison sweat-dropped and fell back anime style.

"There goes the romantic moment!" Madison grumbled under her breath. Eriol stared at her, "He really likes her. Him as in Syaoran and her as in Sakura…" Eriol stated, Madison rolled her eyes, 'What a bone-head.' She thought to herself as she crossed her arms, 'Does she not get it?' Eriol thought to himself, 'OH YEAH! She doesn't know about the locket!' Eriol thought himself laughing, Madison's eyebrow rose, "What so funny?" She asked with a little bit of attitude, "Huh? Oh well, see, aha, you'll think this is like HILARIOUS!" Madison tapped her foot impatiently. "Aha. You see, Syaoran when he was like little, and lived in America, he had a childhood sweetheart. Right?" Madison nodded, "Yeah and he gave her this like awesome locket before he moved here," Madison froze and looked at him with interest, "And like he thinks its Sakura. Ahaha." Eriol said laughing at the end. "Ain't that a knee-slapper?" Eriol said slapping his knee with laughter. Madison sweat-dropped and hit him on the head playfully Eriol rubbed his head.

"You just can't get your hands off of me cant you?" He said teasing her. Madison rolled her eyes, "Baka" she grumbled in a whisper. "What?" Eriol said, "Don't yeah think its funny? He's just using his 'She's my childhood sweetheart' excuse so he doesn't have to admit that he's breaking his promise and falling for another girl." Eriol said. Madison rolled her eyes, "DINNERS READY!" Syaoran yelled from inside the kitchen, everyone took their seats, it was: Syaoran, Sakura, Meiling, Madison. And Eriol. Boy, girl, girl, girl, boy. Everyone ate silently. Syaoran coughed trying to start a conversation, "Ahem… uh so Eriol. Yeah uh. Yeah." He said dumbly. Sakura kept shooting glances at the door. She wanted to find out he was real BAD. Why? Because she thinks that he is the guy in her locket. 'He looks exactly like the locket boy…' Sakura thought to herself twirling her locket in her fingers.

Syaoran was in deep conversation with Eriol, about Sports. Madison and Meiling were talking about how stupid some guys are. "Yeah like how YOU think SOMEONE is going to say THEY LOVE YOU and THEY get all ROMANTIC and all that and then they tell you that their BESTFRIEND is in love with you BESTFRIEND." Madison said angrily as she eyed Eriol. Eriol and Syaoran stopped talking and looked at Madison with a "huh?" face. Madison crossed her arms and cursed them under her breath. Eriol and Syaoran shrugged, 'Probably a girl thing' Eriol thought to him as he continued eating. Syaoran glanced at Sakura, she was awfully quiet and awfully interested in his door. He looked at her. 'She is so.. beautiful. Her eyes are so… mesmerizing… her fingers…Huh?' Syaoran thought as he looked at Sakura's fingers. They were twirling something. Something gold. Something shiny… Syaoran dropped his fork and stared into space, Sakura stopped twirling the locket with her fingers and stared at him, Meiling, Madison, and Eriol stopped and stared.

"Oh no. Not again." Eriol said standing up, he started shaking Syaoran, "Dude. Wake up!" He said angrily as he shook him violently. All of a sudden Sakura froze. Everything went black… "SAKU!" Madison said standing up and shaking Sakura. Meiling froze and looked… she got dizzy. Everything seemed to be turning black. "Madison…Eriol…" She whispered, "MEILING!" Madison and Eriol screamed in unison as they ran to her side. "Oh my god. Eriol what is happening!" Madison said, her hand to her heart. Eriol sat down and put his head in his hands, "I.. don't know…" He said… ( SYAORAN'S FLASHBACK) --- 'I cant believe we're moving to Tokyo… I cant believe I have to leave Sakura…' he thought to himself. 'How will I tell her?' Li let out a big sad sigh. He slowly took out a piece of paper and a pen and started writing a note, he wrote: 'Sakura, please meet me at the park across the street at 7:00 am. I have something important to tell you.' He went outside and stuck the note in a tree were he and Sakura put their notes.

( SAKURA'S FLASHBACK) --- 'Huh what's this? Ooh! Its from Li!' She thought to herself as she excitedly opened the note. 'Hm, he wants me to meet him at the park at 7, ook. I have how much time to get ready? WAIT! WHAT! ITS ALREADY 7:20 AM!' Sakura said as she looked twice at her watch. She had no time to change, so she ran all the way to the park. When she finally got to the park she saw Li swinging silently, she started tiptoeing closer and closer when she got close enough she covered his eyes with her hands, "GUESS WHO!" She said smiling "Sakura?" Li answered. "AW! How'd you know? Aha" Sakura said as she grabbed a swing next to him.

(BOTH SAKURA AND SYAORAN'S FLASHBACK) --- "Sakura… I-im moving to Tokyo… today." Li said stuttering. Sakura jumped off of her swing, "WHAT?" "LI! NO. YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME… LI…" Sakura said as she embraced her best friend, her sweetheart. Li slowly embraced her. He could feel tears on his shoulder.

After what seemed like 10 years, Li finally let go. He reached into his pocket, I have something for you. He slowly opened a box, which contained the most beautiful locket. He slowly opened the locket; there was a picture of him on one side and a picture of Sakura on the other side. Sakura wiped her tears away, she looked at Li. Li walked behind Sakura and put the necklace around her neck. "Li.. Its beautiful…" Sakura said as she looked at the locket.

(MEILING'S FLASHBACK) --- "LI! IT'S TIME TO GO! HURRY! WE'LL MISS THE PLANE!" Meiling shouted, as she went inside the car. Meiling stared at her brother and her friend Sakura. "Why are they so sad?" She asked herself, as she watched them, Sakura looked at Li with pleading eyes. "I will always love you. You were my first love. My only love. I will never find anyone like you…. Please don't forget me…" Li said as he gave Sakura one last embrace. "Li. I love you. I will never forget you. Someday we will meet again…." Sakura said as she let go of her fist love. "Good bye Sakura…." Li said as he turned around and started walking home. "Good bye Li…" Sakura said as she watched him go. She watched him step into his car. She watched him leave the driveway….

(SAKURA'S SECOND FLASHBACK) --- She held her locket tightly, as she cried. She sat down on the swing, which Li was swinging on. She cried and cried… "One day we will meet again Li…" She said as she slowly got off the swing and walked home… She was to sad that she didn't see the truck coming…

Eriol grabbed a cup of water and splashed Syaoran, no movement. Madison and Eriol ran to the phone and started dialing 9…1… "Huhhh?" Syaoran groaned looking at his surroundings. Eriol and Madison dropped the phone and ran to his side. "Dude! YOUR OK!" Eriol said wiping his sweat-drop/tears. "Uh yeah? Dude. Why am I wet?" Syaoran asked looking down at his shirt, Eriol sweat-dropped, "Eh.. long story?" He said. "NO! NO! DON'T LEAVE…" Meiling shouted from her seat. Her eyes were closed. Syaoran jumped up and went to his sister, he shook her, "MEILING!" Syaoran yelled shaking her into her senses. Meiling blinked twice and looked at her brother then at Sakura. "Syaoran?" She said looking at Syaoran weakly. (A/N: This is Meiling's first flashback)
Syaoran smiled down at her. Madison and Eriol stood in between Sakura and Syaoran.

Madison put her hand on Sakura's shoulders. "Please wake up…" She prayed to herself silently. "Nooo… Touya… Help…" Sakura said tears rushing down her cheeks. "Sakura!" They all ran to her side. Patting her hands and embracing her, "Sakura…" Madison said. 'What is happening to her?' Madison thought to herself sadly. "No… Don't leave… I love …." Sakura said in a weak whisper. Madison let go of Sakura and stared down at her. "The… Locket… Boy" She said grabbing Sakura's locket and tearing it off her neck. Syaoran, Eriol, and Meiling stood up. "He's done nothing but cause trouble for Sakura." Madison said angrily at the locket. "She's been hurting her for so long." Madison continued, "What does he want with her?" She asked the locket as she walked to a trash-can, she held the locket above the trash-can, slowly dropping it. But someone stopped her. It was… Sakura.

"Madison." Sakura said holding her hand out in front of Madison. Madison stared into her best-friend's emerald eyes. They looked hurt and confused. "Sakura-chan" Madison said putting the locket in Sakura's hands. Eriol went to Madison's side, and patted her back in a comforting matter. Meiling walked over to Sakura and gave her a long embrace. It was a very emotional moment. 3 people staring into space hit by similar flashbacks… Somehow connected with each other? Syaoran slowly walked towards them, his eyes on the golden locket, which lay in Sakura's soft, snowy white hands. Syaoran switched his gaze onto Sakura. Their eyes met. Brown eyes and Emerald eyes, staring deeply into each other, 'Could this be?' They thought. Meiling backed away. It was Sakura in front of Syaoran. They continued to stare into each other's eyes, not blinking, not speaking. Meiling looked at Syaoran then at Sakura. 'I knew there was something… could Sakura really be the girl Syaoran ahs been looking for? The girl which he ahs kept his promise to for 13 long years?' Meiling thought to herself. 'What is going on?' Madison asked herself, 'Oh cool! Staring contest me next!' Eriol thought happily. 'Is she the girl I've waited for, for so long? The girl I never left behind?' Syaoran thought to himself not leaving Sakura's stare.

'Could that flashback mean that he is the locket boy? Could he be the answer to the flashbacks that I keep getting?' Sakura thought to herself as she continued to stare into his warm, brown eyes. Syaoran took a step closer; Sakura dropped the locket and ran outside. 'What is going on?' Sakura asked herself. Madison and Meiling ran after her, Eriol was about to run after them when he noticed Syaoran bend down and pick up the locket. "Dude. Did you not just see what happened!" Eriol said angrily. Syaoran stood up and opened the locket. Tears streamed down his eyes. It was her. Sakura Kinomoto was his long lost love. "Syaoran…" Eriol said glancing at the locket. "I can't believe this… Sakura Kinomoto is Cherry Blossom?" Eriol asked in a whisper. Syaoran nodded. His long lost love was here all along. Right next door. In the same house…

Sakura continued running, "SAKURAA!" she could hear her friends yelling. But she didn't care. It was so sudden. She did not expect to find the Locket Boy, living next door to her. She did not expect having flashbacks about him. She did not expect to be having dinner with him. She did not expect any of this to happen to her. She expected this stuff to happen in fairy-tales, with magical godmothers, and dwarfs, but not in reality. She ran to a nearby park and sat down on a swing. She swinged silently as thoughts ran in and out of her mind. Then all of a sudden someone covered her eyes, "Guess who?" He said. Sakura remembered the flashback… could it be Syaoran? No… his voice seems so much deeper. It can't be Syaoran, but then who is it? "Oh wait, you don't know who. I never got a chance to introduce myself," He said uncovering Sakura's eyes. Sakura stood up and turned around. There he was… the Syaoran look a like. "Hi, I'm Kenshin. Your locket boy." He said with his hand out in front of him. Sakura looked at him with a "what the freak" face.

How did Kenshin find out about the locket boy? Because he heard everything that happened in the Li house, he eavesdropped. He gathered all the information he needed to make Sakura fall in love with him. He would do anything to get Maiiko away from him, and if it meant pretending to be someone's long lost love, he'd do it. Sakura stared at him in shock. "No… I only have one locket boy…" She said backing away from him. But how did he know? She thought to herself eyeing him suspiciously. "SAKURAAAA!" Madison said running to her side, Meiling, Eriol, and Syaoran soon came. "Sakura. It's me, your locket boy." Kenshin said edging closer holding his hand out to her. Sakura shook her head no, she didn't feel as if it was the locket boy, but how would she know? She doesn't know WHO he is, WHAT he's like, or WHERE he is. Syaoran stood in between them. "No." He said in an audible whisper, 'I will not lose her again.' He thought to himself. They stood there for hours in the same position, Madison and Meiling with their arms around Sakura, Eriol putting his arm around Madison, and Syaoran smack-dab in the middle of his long lost love and his clone.

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AUTHORS NOTE: Wow. 5 pages o.o I hope you guys didn't get confused. Sorry if the last chappie was confusing! Ok, about the flashbacks, it starts out with Syaoran's then Sakura's, then they both get hit with the same flashback. (confusing?) Then MEILING gets her first ever flashback, and then Sakura ahs another one. Eh, hope you don't get confused! Enjoy (:

;candee