Author's Notes: Just in case anyone is wondering, I deleted my other fic 'Shields and Scrumptious Sweets' and 'Berserker with Finesse'. It didn't gain much reviews and I concluded that people ONLY want our Syaoran as hot and snobby. Oh well…
Here's the last chap, minna-san!
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winterkaguya - hahahaha...it was really funny reading this...in the beginning, it was a bit angsty...but later on it was romantic...
initially i felt very frustrated with syaoran & wanted to beat the heck out of him for mistreating sakura tat way!! but after a while, sakura's amnesia did serve some form of justice and syaoran must've felt terrible...good for him & serves him right!!
and i really like touya in here...he is just so...typical...touya!!
i can't wait for your next update!! update soon!!
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: For a Happy Marriage
Sakura, who just turned twenty a few months ago, is seated on a black comfy office chair on a holiday. Her eyes narrowed as she tries to read the tiny letters printed on the sheets of paper. Her right elbow was rested on the office table and her palm supports her face. She gave a slight grunt as she tries to continue what she's reading.
'DUG!' A sound was made when her head fell on the table. "What's the matter with you?" Somebody asked her from across the air conditioned room.
"Awww! My head!" She whined, shutting her eyes tightly.
The one who asked her smirked. "Nah… It isn't gonna happen again."
"My head hurts!" Her hand found its way to her forehead. "…Can't- do- paperwork!"
"Quit it dear, you can't fool me twice!" Syaoran, who was relaxingly seated on the olive green couch across her, casually uttered while he reads the daily newspaper.
Sakura pouted and fell from her seat, crashing her body on the floor. "AaaAah!" She let out a slight scream and continued to keep her eyes shut.
Syaoran tore away his gaze from the daily news and eyed her. "I told you Sakura, it isn't gonna happen again..! Stop it with that lame act of yours and continue with those files..!" After that, the newspaper hid his face again. Crossing his legs, he continued reading.
She stayed still beside the table on the carpeted floor. She continued letting out tiny yelps and whining noises.
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Ever since that fateful night that Syaoran ditched his flight back to Hong Kong and Sakura ended up in a hospital, things have been going smoothly. He decided to stay in Tomoeda just until her condition becomes stable…or for his personal reason, to get back at Touya who has been peeving him ever since they laid eyes on each other. There isn't anything more rejuvenating than to smell that successful sweet revenge when the doctor finally announced that her condition is finally swiftly progressing and that she agreed to go back to Hong Kong with him. Touya was more pissed than ever.
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After fifteen minutes, Sakura finally opened her eyes and stood. "When you get aches, no matter how painful they are, expect that I will just ignore em and won't take consideration of your health or whatsoever!" She cursed and sat on his chair again.
A smirk appeared in his masculine lips. "Right."
His one word answer made her negative electricity travel all over her veins. "WHY AM I DOING ALL YOUR PAPERWORK?" She stormed, charging towards him from her spot. "AND DON'T YOU KNOW THAT IT'S A HOLIDAY?"
He casually placed the newspaper at his side and gaped at his wife's lovely but angered face. "I know it's a holiday." He beamed, giving her one of his lady-killer smiles. "And every employed man deserves it. But on my part, I still have loads to finish. That's why you're doing my work-" He got devious. "-to give me that holiday I deserve."
A vain popped in her head. Her fists landed on both sides of her hips. She glared down at him. "Well, you aren't supposed to be way back your work IF YOU HADN'T insisted on staying in Japan for so long just to get back at my brother!"
He broke their eye contact and his sight landed again on the newspaper at his left. "True."
Another vain popped in her head. "Why are you making me work for your sake then? You inconside-"
"It's noon; wanna go out for lunch now, dear?" His gaze returned at her emerald orbs again.
Oh… He's just so irritatingly dreamy. No matter how annoyed Sakura is, just by calling her love names can melt away all her fury…and don't forget his stunning amber eyes. "YES PLEASE!" She angrily said. This time though, her anger is just an act…just so he wouldn't think that he's off the hook that easily.
He chuckled a little. He left the couch and stood in front of her. Taking advantage of his height, he placed a kiss on her forehead and his left hand crawled around her waist. "I just know where to take you…" He stated. After a few seconds, they're off to the exit of his office.
One night when Sakura and Syaoran got home from Eriol's place, they found extra cars parked in the driveway. "What's all these?" He asked, taking off his shades after he parks his car at his usual spot in the garage.
"I dunno… Do you know?" She responded while looking through the window.
"If I know I wouldn't be asking you, would I?" He stated matter-of-factly as he steps off his car. She did so as well.
She casually walked over to the front door only to be greeted by a man by the doorway. "Hey, what's the rush?" He asked her.
"Nothing much… I'm just a tad curious of what's happening around…" Sakura replied. After that, Syaoran showed up beside her.
"Oh these?" He pointed out the cars. "I'm going back to England tomorrow at dawn..!"
"When will you be coming back?" Syaoran asked immediately.
Chase rubbed his chin. "I'll be back by next summer I suppose."
"But that's going to be a long wait..!" She exclaimed a bit.
Syaoran smirked. "It's just what I'm hoping for."
"Yeah, you sure do..!" Chase gladly uttered and gave Syaoran a playful punch on his left arm.
"Anyways…" Syaoran took a step nearer to Chase and placed his arm on his cousin's shoulders. "I'm not going to miss you, that's for sure. But perhaps Sakura will… So you take care, little man..!" At that, he dragged him inside the house and led him to the Dining room.
Sakura smiled more. Her husband is really treating Chase better ever since they returned in Hong Kong.
Next week (in London), Chase found himself relaxing in Beatles Coffee Shop when a familiar face strode next to him. "Meiliiiing..!" He chirped gladly.
Instantly, she turned her head to see him. She had a bitter face, like her entire school's mass of problems was hammered onto her, but soon turned the opposite when she saw her cousin. "Chase!" She quickly skipped over to his table. "I'm so glad I ran into you."
Watching her take the seat in front of him, he said "So, what's the problem? You look like you lost your house." A tricky smug erupted in his handsome face.
"Well…" She rolled her eyes and took a glance around the dim place. "I'm actually out with my friendstoday…" She sounded like she regretted saying the 'f' word.
"Yeah, I'm listening…" Chase mentioned after sipping his coffee.
She sighed disappointedly and continued, "They said it's going to be a double date, but in my case, it's double blinddate." She irritatingly ran a hand thru her shiny black hair. Her garnet eyes pierced through Chase's own as if she was about to tell him a top surreptitious secret. "I don't think it's a funny joke."
Opposite to her facial expressions- he seemed to be casual, as always. "What's the problem with him?" He referred to the unknown man Meiling is supposed to be dating at the moment. "If he has one or three legs, you need not to say more."
She childishly pouted. "That's the problem! It's not a 'he', it's a 'she'!" He gave out a boyish laughter. At that, her face just turned bitterer. He beamed at her and she decided to continue "The reason they aligned me with a girl is because I've always had glitches with men so my so called friendsdecided to throw me a girl instead!" Once again, she ran her hand thru her hair again, this time, she looked more annoyed.
Chase gave out another manly chuckle and mockery went along with it. "I would have done the same to you too, Meiling!" He laughed again. "With all your boyish stances, I wouldn't have guessed that you ARE a girl unless you're wearing a skirt!" At that, her garnet eyes glared at him. "B-but…" he chirped. "Since you're up close to me right now, I can say you're pretty." And then he made an impression of vomiting.
She rolled her eyes and slumped on her chair. "You're no help." Chase just grinned with his victory and then four people entered Beatles Coffee Shop. "Gaaaah, they're here." She muttered.
"Hey, we were looking for you..!" One red head chic neared Meiling and rested her hand on her shoulder.
"Yeeey…" She muttered once again. "You found me…"
"Cheer up! It's just a joke you know!" One long silver haired guy walked in with the rest. There was a blonde girl next to him and he placed his arm on her shoulders. Seems that this blonde girl was the one Meiling was paired up with.
"You suck at jokes!" Meiling retaliated to the long silver haired tall boy.
The blonde girl chuckled sweetly then her light blue eyes caught Chase. "Hello..!" She greeted nicely.
"Hey Meiling, you're dating a MAN?" A brown haired guy, who stood next to the red chic, uttered gleefully.
Meiling rolled her eyes once again. If she continues doing that, her eye balls might probably roll the way out from their sockets. "He's my cousin!" She faced Chase with a tired look. "Everybody, this is Chase. Chase, this is everybody."
"Oh..! I would've figured that out!" The long silver haired tall guy beamed with mockery.
Meiling grunted and the others went to the counter to get beverages for themselves. At that, she heard her cousin speak "Hello to you too" to the blonde girl who was still standing beside their circular table.
A cocky but nice grin drew in Meiling's lips. She stood and talked to the blonde girl. "Why don't you take my seat and I'll grab some coffee as well." She skipped a little over to Chase's side and took his wallet which is just casually resting on the circular table. "Since I'm your date today, I'll be treating you out." She stated while rummaging thru her cousin's wallet. As she expected, Chase didn't give out a morsel of whining. She grinned gladly (probably the first time she really grinned since she found out that she was aligned with another girl) and followed the others to the counter.
In the mean time, Chase just stared at the blonde girl in front of him. He likes the way that her semi-long hair is tucked to the right side of her neck falling freely in front of her shoulder. To everyone's perception, she looks half Asian (probably Japanese) just like Chase himself. He let out a boyish smirk and the girl just returned it with a sweet smile.
"No … … No..! … … Nah … … Definitely not … … … No!" Syaoran raised his voice with irritancy. "How long do we have to play this nonsensical game, Eriol!"
Eriol raised his eyebrow at Syaoran, "We're not playing..!" He took off the magazine in front of Syaoran and placed it on another table.
"Why do you fancy showing Syaoran a bunch of magazine pictures of different sweets?" Rika asked after she sipped her coffee.
Tomoyo, who was seated next to Sakura, whispered to her "Something tells me this scene already happened… It's like a déjà vu, ya know…?" Sakura just looked back at her and nodded.
Eriol placed his fingers on his forehead and shook his head disappointedly. He was flipping the pages under Syaoran's nose, asking which pastry seems delicious to him. "I'm testing Syaoran's logical thinking when it comes to sweets…considering he finally got the 'hah-hah'" He made an impression of his heart finally beating.
"I am not your hamster, damn it." Syaoran annoyingly told him.
Tomoyo watched them from the corner of her eye and pointed the magazine "Let me see that." Eriol handed her the magazine he was using a while ago. She flipped it open and looked at its pages one by one. "Tss..!" She snapped. "No wonder your experiment on Syaoran didn't work out so well… These pastries here are totally wearing the wrong color combinations..!" Syaoran raised his eyebrow at that. "If this blueberry doesn't go with that icing…" she started mumbling to her self until…
"SHE'S RIGHT!" Sakura, Naoko and Chiharu exclaimed in chorus. They were peaking thru Tomoyo's shoulder.
Syaoran, Eriol, Sakura, Tomoyo, Rika, Chiharu and Naoko were chilling in their usual spot in West Wind café since after lunch. "Well, we've been here for longer than expected, I believe we gotta go." Syaoran stood from the brown sofa, taking Sakura's hand along with his.
"Leaving already?" Chiharu questioned.
"Yes." He answered shortly.
"Can we come?" Naoko asked in curiosity.
"No." He raised an eyebrow.
"Let's all come!" Tomoyo exclaimed, standing from her seat and dragging Eriol along.
"Oh..! Where are we going?" Rika asked. Sakura just eyed them all amusingly.
"How about we go shopping?" Tomoyo suggested.
"NO!" Eriol and Syaoran retaliated.
And to Syaoran's half dismay, his wife agreed with the other girls. "I want a new pair of socks and scarves!" She cheered.
"Me too!" Chiharu said excitingly.
"Let's go!" Rika announced. At that, Tomoyo took Sakura from Syaoran and the five girls exited West Wind Café, leaving the two boys dumbfounded.
Syaoran's face turned bitter. "So much for going on a date with her and ending up in the bedroom…" He muttered thru gritted teeth, not purposely making Eriol hear what he said.
Eriol smiled from ear to ear. "Ohhh LA-di-DA!"
He faced him. "I'm surprised you're not as excited as the other girls about going shopping!" Between his lines was that he was pointing out that he sort of finds him gay before.
"I already have tons of clothes in my closet. I'm lazy to get a new closet that's why I'm not doing any shopping…" Eriol dumbly replied. The two stood there silently while the girls happily chatted outside the Café.
"I might've guessed, Eriol!" After a swift friendly whack on his back, Syaoran exited the coffee shop.
Eriol's eyebrows crossed. He understood what Syaoran was trying to pull out. He yelled to his furthering figure "Tomoyo made those oodles of clothes for me!" He scratched his head, annoyed that he probably didn't hear him nor believe him, and then he followed the rest.
END OF CHAPTER
Author's Notes: Well... I didn't actually introduce the friends of Meiling... but I have a hunch that some of you might've already guessed who they are. -grins-
Next stop, Epilogue!