That Part of My Heart Which Will Always Belong To You

"OH MY GOD!" Tomoyo screamed, "FINALLY"

Sakura sweat-dropped.

Meilin smiled. She remembered what Maya had told her the other day.

"So," Tomoyo asked, her eyes twinkling, " I HAVE TO DESIGN YOUR DRESS SAKURA!"

She immediately ran into her design room and starting pulling out cloth material and books and there was sewing material everywhere.

Sakura looked at Meilin with a helpless smile.

Meilin patted her pack emphatically.

There was a knock on Maya's door. "Come in," she said,

Kaho made her way inside.

"Hi Kaho," she said, grabbing her bag, "I was just going to head home, mind if we walk the talk?"

"No problem." She smiled, "I was actually going to ask you if you wanted to grab some coffee?"

"I've been dying to try out that new café." Maya smiled, "Let's go!"

The two women sat themselves at Firenze Café, and placed their order.

"So," Maya said, "Something on your mind?"

"Eriol and I are moving back to England after this semester."

Maya nodded, and motioned her to continue

"And," she said, "I'm going to miss it here."

Maya smiled. "I will too, you know." She said, "This town is a nice place, and so much seems to happen here."

Kaho stared at her hands.

"Hey," Maya asked, "What happened to you?"

"I think you can guess."

"Touya Kinomoto?" she asked, she sighed.

"How do you feel?" she asked,

"Sadly certain."

"I like the way you put it across." She smiled as the waiter served them their drinks.

"Do you ever get the feeling that even though you love someone, you know you can't be with that person?"

Maya gave her a sad smile, "I do."

"Uff!" Meilin scowled, as she blew off some dust. "In how many years has this mansion not been used?"

"A billion years," Kai sneezed, "Oh man. Cleaning this place is going to be an uphill task."

"Eriol," Meilin asked, "Do you have some sort of magical powers that will clear up this place like this?" she snapped her fingers

Eriol laughed, "I don't, but Sakura does. We could use the Bubbles and then the water to clean this place up."

Meilin scowled. Suppi-chan flew around Eriol, "Oh Master," he began, "this is worse than the house we moved into when we first came to Japan."

"Oh stop complaining Suppi." Nakuru frowned, "You didn't help clean up that house, what makes you think you're going to help us clean up a much bigger house?"

"I can be helpful, you know."

Nakuru stuck her tongue out at him.

"Now now," Eriol said, "Stop it. Let's first clean up the rooms so that we can start moving there, and then we can start cleaning up the kitchen."

"Sounds like a plan." Eron said, quietly.

"Leiyun." a commanding voice called.

"Master Shun?" Leiyun asked, unable to believe the voice he had just heard.

He had been sitting alone in King Penguin Park, trying to get his mind to think straight.

And stop thinking about Maya.

He'd never known that he would begin to feel like this again. Consumed by her.

"Yes." Master Shun said, "I got your letter." He sat down.

There were a few minutes of silence.

"Are you going to tell me?" Leiyun asked,

"Whatever I think fit, I will." Master Shun said, curtly.

"Right." Leiyun said.

"She has to give up her love for you so that the Sacrifice can be sealed."

He felt his heart beat faster.

"Her love for me?"

"Yes. You fool." Master Shun said, Leiyun gasped at his language. "She still loves you."

"What do I have to do?"

"You have to give up your powers." He said, "All of it. If you don't, you die."

He stared at him with wide eyes. "What?"

"Tough luck, Leiyun." Master Shun said, "But this is what you get for having a father who decides to release dark forces on his own son."

"WHAT?"

"Yes." Master Shun said, " Wutai released The Ego on you."

"I thought the Ego came to me on it's own."

"Your thoughts are useless." Master Shun said, standing up.

"What am I supposed to do?" he asked

"Choose." He said, slightly softening, "Between the girl you fell in love who is the most beautiful and brave woman or the callous father who set dark forces on his near and dear ones so as to soothe his own ego."

With those words, Master Shun walked away leaving Leiyun in the cold.

"Hoeeeee!" Sakura screamed. This time she really was late.

"Getting back to your old ways, huh?" Kero teased

"It's not funny, Kero!" she said, "today is an important day at school!" She dashed off still wearing her school uniform as she ran down the stairs.

She barely made it to school on time, when there was an excited chatter that was going on in class.

She collapsed on her seat, panting.

"Late Sakura?" Chiharu smiled, "I thought you were over that?"

"Oh well" she said,

"They're going to announce the valedictorian today!" Rika said, "I wonder who it'll be."

"Me too." Naoko said, "I can't chalk out a single person, it can be anybody!"

The bell rang and everyone scrammed to their seats.

"Morning everyone." Miss. Mizuki smiled, "Today is a very important day. We will announce the valedictorian and the University entry results which Prof. Zhang received last night."

There were whispers all around the classroom.

"And," Miss Mizuki continued, "Prof. Zhang would also like to hold a little session with the entire class after that."

"What session?" Meilin asked,

"Oh well," Miss. Mizuki flushed, "Just a bit about life."

"YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" Maya screamed

"Calm down, Prof. Zhang" Mr. Terada sweat-dropped, "It need be too long, just a fifteen minute talk on-"

"On sex!" she said,

"Well,er," he said, "Since you are our counselor, we only thought it'd be fit."

"In front of the entire faculty!" she said,

"We are there to answer any questions…"

"Why can't I answer them?" she said,

"I understand, Miss. Zhang," he said, "But the Board of Education specifies that it must a joint faculty session."

"Fine." She said, "I will give them 'the talk'."

Sonomi and Yelan were moving all of Yelan's stuff to the Li Mansion.

"Thanks Sonomi." Yelan smiled, "I couldn't have done this without you."

She then looked at Wei.

And Wei. But she couldn't say it. She just smiled at him. She wanted to scold herself for feeling the way that she did.

Where's Maya when I need advice?

"Um," Sonomi said, obviously feeling the awkwardness, "I'll head home now, Tomoyo will be back in a bit."

"Yeah," Yelan said, "You should. I should too. I promised Maya that I will stay with her tonight."

"Want me to drive you there?"

"Will you?"

Sonomi smiled and as they were making her way to the car, Yelan glanced back and flushed when she saw Wei staring back at her.

"THE LIST IS UP!" Meilin screamed, and jumped in excitement.

Syaoran went pale and walked away from the crowd. He didn't want to know where he had gotten into. He ran out of the school.

"SAKURA!" Tomoyo screamed as she hugged her, "We're going to Singapore! EEEEEE!"

Sakura grinned. She was so relieved when she saw her name next to the University of Singapore list. She wanted to scream in happiness, but her relief got the better of her.

"Where is the hell is Syaoran?" Meilin asked, "He should know that he's going to be stuck with us for the next four years."

"Yeah," Tomoyo asked, puzzled.

"Um," Sakura said, "I think I know." With that, she was running to where she was positive Syaoran was.

Eriol smiled and congratulated the girls.

"Where did you get in, Eriol?" Tomoyo heard herself asking

"Oxford." He smiled,

"So you'll be going back to England this year?" she asked

"Yes." He said. There was an awkward silence between them.

"Um, Tomoyo?" he asked, so softly that she felt he was whispering

"Yes?" she smiled nervously

"I know it's kind of late for me to be asking you this, but would you like me to take you to prom?"

"I'd love that Eriol."

"You really did a great job, Maya." Kaho smiled as the two women looked at the excited teenagers.

Maya returned the smiled, but didn't say anything.

"Still hung up over the sex ed thing?"

"Very."

"Syaoran" Sakura called to the tree in the elementary school

"How did you find me here?" he asked,

"I've known you long enough." She smiled, "Aren't you curious?"

"Tell me the worst."

"But why should I tell you the worst, when it's the best news?" she smiled.

"Huh?"

"Get down silly!" she motioned for him to climb down the tree

In one swift movement, he jumped down next to her.

"Li Syaoran," she began, "I'm very sorry to say that…" she paused dramatically

He looked at her with the most panic-ridden face she'd ever seen that made her want to laugh.

"that you're going to be stuck with me, Meilin and Tomoyo in Singapore for the next four years."

He just stared at her.

"Well, Syaoran," she said, "you should really say something now."

"I don't believe it." He managed.

"You're stupid." She said, "And don't be so modest Syaoran. You're a good student and your grades are quite good."

"Let's go!" she said, "Everyone's waiting for the session to begin." She ran in front of him.

He caught her hand, she looked at him as he pulled her towards him.

He stared at her with such fierceness that she wanted to freeze the moment in time. He leaned in and before she knew it, she felt his soft lips on hers. As she wrapped her hands around his neck, they both realized how relieved they were.

"Where did you two go?" Meilin demanded,

"Syaoran was refusing to come down a tree." Sakura lied.

"Right."

"Guys!" Rika said, "It's about to begin!"

Prof. Zhang made her way to the center of the hall. "Well," she smiled.

"Congrats to all of you." She said, "You all worked very hard, and I'm so happy that it all worked in the end." She winked at Sakura.

"Now," she said, "After a lot of thinking, the faculty has decided to elect Tomoyo Daidouji as the valedictorian."

There was a huge applause at this.

"Go Tomoyo!"

"You're the best!"

"Tomoyo?" Maya said, "Do you want to come up here and say something?"

Tomoyo blushed as every pair of eyes followed her as she walked up the podium.

"Um," she said, "I can't tell you how happy I'm feeling right now." She grinned, "I promise to try and be the best valedictorian that you guys can ask for." She went back to her seat.

"I'm sure you will, Tomoyo." Maya said, "Okay everyone. I'm also here to give you one last lecture on a very important aspect of life." She paused.

SAY IT.

"Sex" she said,

There were excited whispers as she said the dratted word.

Oh dear, I'm going to be such a fail at this.

"Right." She said, with conviction. "Well, so you are all at a point in your lives when, um, you have these hormones which sometimes get the better of your head."

How lame does that sound?

"But," she said, "You must remember that being adults, you must make informed decisions. Don't regret doing something later. You see, that's the difference between love and lust. It's beautiful when you're doing it with someone you love, and you're ready with it. But, it's just disgusting if it's lust. So, that's all I had to say, really." She paused, and flushed when she saw that Leiyun was looking at her with an intensity that it made her chest choke up.

"But you guys are good kids," she said, "I mean, I know. I counseled all of you. And, I'm sure you'll be responsible and only do things when you're ready for it."

There was a really awkward silence.

"Okay." She said, "Off you scram! And don't be late for your own prom!"

As the faculty was clearing up and Maya was walking back to her car,

"Maya?" a voice called,

She turned and found Leiyun there, she raised her sunglasses and looked into his brown eyes.

"Yeah?" she said,

"Do you regret what we did then?" he asked,

She looked at him, wondering why he'd ask that question.

"The past is the past, Leiyun." She said, "We were adults then, and we can be adults now too."

"Do you then?" he asked,

She gulped and turned to face him. "No Leiyun. I don't regret it."

"Why?"

"Because you don't have regrets in life, Leiyun." She said, "Only lessons."