~R & R~
~DarkAngel~
*4 Months later*
Sakura's POV
"Ok ladies! Final check." Tomoyo announced enthusiastically and we all took turns checking each other's hair, makeup and dresses. After all it wasn't every day you attended your senior prom and we wanted to look perfect.
Tomoyo had really outdone herself with our dresses for Prom, insisting we had to go out with a bang. She was wearing a sweetheart neckline, princess style dress in navy blue with silver accents on the skirt and silver ribbons tying up the corset, silver heels and her Hair was down in beautiful curls.
Meiling was wearing a one shoulder, red satin dress with a slit on the side that hugged her curves and showed off her leg. She paired it with a pair of black red bottom heels and left her hair down and straight.
Rika wore a white, sweetheart neckline dress with a tulle tutu skirt that reached mid-thigh and white platform pumps. Her hair was done in an elegant updo with a white flower pin to decorate.
Naoko opted for an A-line long dress in aqua blue with clear gems decorating the waist. She paired it with strappy silver heels and left hair hair down.
Chiharu's dress was a beautiful yellow, long halter style gown. She wore black ankle strap heels and had her hair up in a sleek ponytail.
Lastly there was me, in a blush pink sweetheart neckline, mermaid style dress with gold accents all around the hem of the skirt. I wore gold platform stilettos and had my hair down in big loose curls.
"Ok, we all look amazing if I may say so." Tomoyo praised us and we smiled.
"Let's go knock 'em dead." Meiling joked, referring to the guys.
We made our way to the staircase where the guys were dutifully waiting for us at the bottom of the stairs. They looked up at us expectantly and their conversation just went quiet. They were staring us in awe, their mouths slacked.
"Knock 'em dead we did." Chiharu whispered, making us giggle.
I locked eyes with Syaoran who looked to be in a trance and felt the butterflies in my stomach take flight. He looked like a Greek god in his black tux, white button down and pink tie. As I reached the bottom of the stairs he immediately pulled me close to him by my waist, making my heart flutter.
"I have half a mind to kidnap you and keep you all to myself" Syaoran whispered in my ear and I could feel my face heating up in a blush.
"I have half a mind to let you." I whispered back boldly and he smiled wolfishly at me.
"Don't tempt me Princess." He said kissing the top of my hair.
"Limo's outside, but first let me get pictures." Sonomi announced as she made her way to us.
We all posed for some individual couple pictures and then a group picture per Sonomi's instructions. After some motherly gushing from her on how beautiful and grown we looked, we hopped in the limo and were finally off to the High School for the prom.
We stepped into the high school gym and I was impressed by the decor. The theme was "A Night Under The Stars" so the entire gym had been transformed with hanging glowing stars and a big, glowing crescent moon hung above the middle of the dance floor. Navy blue and silver balloons littered the floor, the tables were decorated with navy blue and silver tablecloths, and light blue and white lights danced across the room. A smoke machine gave the illusion of clouds on the floor and a DJ playing music at the end of the gym tied everything together.
We stopped to get our picture taken by the door and then took a seat at one of the tables.
"Everything looks so pretty." I commented as I looked around.
"You're right, everything looks really good." Syaoran commented.
"I'm glad to hear that." A female voice said and we turned to find Alex accompanied by a pretty brunette girl I knew as Mami. She wore a black long empire dress with red platform heels, while Alex looked like a male model in a black suit, black button down and red tie.
"Hi everyone." Alex greeted with a smile.
A chorus of Hi's and Hello's resonated back.
"This is Mami-chan, she's on the school committee and she's also my date for the night." Alex beamed as he put his arm around Mami's waist making her blush cutely.
"Everything looks amazing" We all complimented Mami and went around introducing ourselves.
"Thank you, I just wanted to come by and introduce Mami and let you guys know I'll be leaving for New York after graduation tomorrow." Alex announced, shocking me.
"What?! So soon? Why?" I asked.
"Well without Kari in the way, the little wolf and I were able to actually strike a partnership which helped the company a lot and we actually gained some more investors. So, I'm going back home to take over the company completely and study business part time at NYU." Alex explained.
"Well we're going to miss you." Meiling said and we nodded in agreement.
"I'll make sure to keep in touch, but enough sadness! Tonight we party." Alex smiled.
"He's right! Let's party!" Meiling agreed, getting up on her feet and dragging Ryu to the dance floor.
We all followed in suit and danced the night away. After dancing our hearts out, dinner was eventually served and then came time to announce prom king and queen.
"If I could have everyone's attention please, we're ready to announce this year'sprom King and Queen." The principal announced on the mike from the small stage.
Everyone quieted down in anticipation.
"We tallied the votes and this year's Tomoeda High School's prom King and Queen are… Eriol Hiragizawa and Tomoyo Daidoji!" The principal announced and broke out in cheer.
Tomoyo and Eriol looked surprised but walked up to the stage to get crowned either way. They got their crowns, Tomoyo was given a bouquet of flowers and posed for several pictures.
"Now, if you could join the King and Queen on the dance floor for the King and Queen dance." The principal instructed and a slow song started to play with Tomoyo and Eriol dancing in the middle of the dance floor.
"May I have this dance?" I heard Syaoran ask and I nodded happily, letting him lead me to the dance floor where we were soon joined by the rest of the gang and the school.
I looked into Syaoran's eyes as we swayed to the music and thought about how in love I was with the man in front of me and how I hoped we never stopped this way.
"What's going on in that pretty little mind of yours?" Syaoran asked with a smirk.
"Just how much I love you and how I don't want us to ever stop feeling this way." I voiced my thoughts with a smile.
He pulled me closer and I rested my head on his chest, inhaling his intoxicating scent.
"I could never stop loving you cherry blossom." He whispered in my ear and I broke into a grin even though I knew he couldn't see it.
*Next Day*
Graduation Day
*Sakura's POV*
We all sat on the bleachers by the football field where our graduation ceremony had just been held. We were the only students left, everyone else having dispersed rather quickly after the ceremony was over. We had received our congratulations from our families but had decided to stay behind to savor our last moments as high school students and our last time together in a had discarded our caps and unzipped our gowns but still kept them nonetheless, our outfits just barely visible underneath.
Tomoyo wore a violet sundress that reached her knees with beige wedge heels, her hair left loosely curled to float behind her. Meiling decided to wear a red short cheongsam with gold flowers and put her hair up in two buns with matching gold chopsticks and flats to honor her Chinese background. Rika had opted for a white dress with a skater style skirt that reached her knees, black heels and her hair was up elegantly. Naoko sported a blue sundress with tan pumps and a white cardigan, her hair left straight and down. Chiharu was wearing a yellow sundress dress that reached her knees and black pumps, beautiful wavy hair left down and swept to the side with a yellow butterfly clip. I was wearing a pale pink dress with a skater style skirt, a white cardigan and my pale pink converse (Hey, if I was wearing a dress I had to compromise and at least wear my converse) and you best believe that when I went up to give my valedictorian speech there were a lot of whispers. I had left my hair down at Syaoran's request.
The guys were much simpler, all of them choosing to wear slacks and button downs in their signature colors and ties. Syaoran being the Salutatorian had actually opted for. A full charcoal grey suit, a crisp white button down and a bright emerald green tie, he had left his hair in his usual low ponytail but today it was being tied back with a silver, tube-like clasp with the Li insignia engraved on it.
"I can't believe we are done." Takashi smiled.
"I can and I'm glad." Meiling beamed.
"I still can't believe we're going our separate ways after the summer." Chiharu said sadly.
We all nodded silence, letting the weight of the truth sink in fully. Meiling was going back to China for school and Ryu had decided to follow her to study business. Chiharu and Takashi were leaving for Osaka to study nursing and auto engineering respectively. Naoko was leaving for New York to study playwriting/ directing and Rika was leaving for New York as well to study ballet and Piano. Mikio and Hiro were still undecided on whether to follow the girls or stay and do a long distance relationship.
The only ones who were actually staying nearby were Eriol, Tomoyo, Syaoran and I. We would all be attending the University of Tokyo; Eriol and Syaoran for business, Tomoyo for fashion design and I would be a fine arts major.
"Well we can still keep in touch and visit each other." I tried to brighten the mood.
"Of course! You guys thought you would get rid of me that easily!" Meiling joked and we laughed.
"That's right Sakura, did you finish your mural?" Naoko asked curiously.
"I did! You guys want to go look?" I said happily thinking of the finished wall, Coach had been thrilled with the finished classroom.
The gang nodded and we started to collect our things and make our way inside the school. Syaoran gave my hand a squeeze as we walked inside the building and I couldn't help smiling at him and hugging his arm. It felt surreal being together with him after all that had happened. He returned the smile and kissed the top of my head sweetly.
"Ok, you guys ready?" I asked as we reached the classroom.
Everyone nodded excitedly.
"Ok, here we go." I said and opened the door to the classroom.
We burst into the classroom and I immediately heard a chorus of gasps and oh's and ah's.
"Sakura, it's beautiful." Tomoyo breathed.
After much deliberation and back and forth I had finally settled on something simple yet meaningful.
It was a joined sun and moon, half sun half moon. Behind the moon was a beautiful blue sky and forest background and behind the sun was black galaxy background littered with stars, constellations and some planets. On the bottom I had written the words "Follow your own path, it will take you to unexpected places." I like how the backgrounds were opposite of what the sun and moon were expected to be, it made sense with the quote.
"Thank you." I blushed slightly at the praise.
"How did you come up with it? I know you were stuck for a while." Ryu asked.
"I don't know honestly, one night I was just thinking of how much everything had changed since the beginning of the school year and as I was falling asleep the idea just came up and I spent the whole night sketching it out. I literally went from living in an unloving home, having no friends and not being to pursue my dreams to living with a loving family that just happens to include my amazing boyfriend, finding my real family, having all of you guys as my awesome friends and being able to pursue my dreams in art. " I said thinking back at the hectic school year.
"Aww Sakura, you're making me cry." Tomoyo said and hugged me with the girls not too far behind.
"I love you guys." I whispered as a couple tears escaped my eyes. We broke the hug and it seemed like I wasn't the only one who had gotten sentimental.
We laughed at each other's tears eyes and wiped them away.
"Come on, we need a picture in front of the mural." Tomoyo said and she set up her camera with a timer so we could all be in the picture. The flash went off and I couldn't help but think how surreal graduating felt.
"Ok, I think it's time for us to go, our families are waiting for us to start the party." Tomoyo said referring to the graduation party her mom was throwing at their house for everyone. She had invited all of us and our families so we could celebrate together.
We nodded and started to make our way to the parking lot, quiet and savoring the last time we would be walking those halls.
*10 years Later*
"Kids, it's snack time!" Sakura's motherly voice called out to the backyard where her children were playing with their father.
In record time a 5 year old boy with chocolate hair and emerald green eyes burst through the back door followed by his father who was currently carrying a 3 year old girl with honey blond hair and hazel/gold eyes.
"Ok, go wash your hands, you two." Syaoran said with a smile as he put his daughter down.
"Tsubasa, help your sister, Ryo be a good girl and listen to your big brother." Sakura said as she set the table with sandwiches and juice boxes for the kids.
"Haiii" They both chorused and Sakura couldn't help the smile that spread on her face. Syaoran stepped closer, encircling her in his arms as he did and gave her a soft peck on the lips.
"So Mrs. Li…" He smiled not letting go of her.
"Yes, Mr. Li?" Sakura teased back, lacing her hands behind his neck.
"Nothing, after 6 years of marriage I just never get tired of calling you that." He smiled again and kissed her.
"I never get tired of hearing it either." She smiled back as they broke apart.
"All done!" Tsubasa called as they came back and took a seat at the table. Syaoran shifted Sakura so he now stood behind her, his arms still around her.
"Okay, what do we say before we eat?" Sakura asked.
"Itadakimasu!" They both chorused with their hands together and a small bow.
"Good job! Go ahead and eat up." Sakura praised.
Sakura and Syaoran stood in the kitchen watching as their children ate contentedly, wondering how they had been so blessed in life to have the family they did. Sakura's paintings had become very sought after and even had her own art exhibit in Tokyo. The Li clan and Li corporation was as successful as ever thanks to Syaoran and Eriol, who was now his VP. Tomoyo was doing amazingly well with her Fashion line, her designs already making it into international shows. Eriol and Tomoyo had married not too long after Sakura and Syaoran and had two beautiful daughters aged 1 and 3.
Takashi and Chiharu got married shortly after high school and had 3 boys aged 8, 6, and 4. Meiling and Ryu had moved permanently to China where they got married and had a daughter and a son aged 4 and 3 respectively, they currently helped Syaoran run the Hong Kong branch of Li Corp.
Rika and Mikio broke up not too long after high school and decided to go their separate ways. She decided to become a ballet teacher after she eloped with Adjunct professor Yoshiyuki Terada from her college, they were currently expecting their first child.
Naoko and Mikio also ended their relationship after a couple years of trying to have a long distance relationship. She was now working on Broadway writing plays and surprisingly ended up marrying Alex Johnson. They didn't have any kids yet but loved to travel all over the world and go on adventures whenever work allowed them.
"And to think this all started with a school assignment." Syaoran whispered by Sakura's ear, making her smile.
"Who would have thought that bad boys fell in love." She retorted back, making him smile.
~Fin~
A/N: And there it is! The Final chapter of Bad Boys Don't Fall In Love! It has been a super wild ride to get here, I mean I started posting this fic about 3 and 1/2 years ago in 2017 and here we are in 2021 surviving a Global pandemic (BTW I hope everyone has been well and stays healthy throughout these uncertain times). Anyways, ending this is definitely bitter-sweet as this is my first ever fanfic and it has served me as a learning experience. I loved everything about it, including the flaming comments I received when everyone thought I made Syaoran cheat on Sakura but it was all a dream.
Anyways I love you all and I hope you enjoyed my story!
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