AN: All I have to say at the moment is WARNING: Near the end of this chapter contains alot of ...words...ya noe. Hence the rating is PG-13 so I'm just warning anyone who's not comfortable reading language like that. But anyways, other than that, everything's fine so have fun ^_^
Disclaimer: Maybe if I had enuf money I would buy CLAMP and own the characters and everything, but so far, in my case, I dun have enuf money so I own nothing :P Pooey X.X
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A Promise Meant to be Broken
Chapter 3: Splattered Emotions
1st CCS fic by Fizzalicious Cherri
I was a fool to actually think she waited...but why should I have thought that? I have no right to think that way...Syaoran couldn't concentrate on his day's assignments. He wrinkled up a piece of paper and tossed it into the trashcan at the corner of his room.
I have XingMei...He thought, but he could tell his mind was thinking another way. But Syaoran, if you came back and Sakura had still waited, do you think you would be here right now? No, you would be with her. With Sakura. Syaoran shoke his head furiously, shaking out the voice in his head.
No!! NO! It's not possible, I have to get the cards from her...I have one year's time so we could've never been together either way...and my family, they forbid me to have any relationship with the mistress... Syaoran sighed, a frustrated look crossed his eyes. It wasn't as if his family's pressure wasn't enough for him to frustrate about, but now his emotions were giving him a problem. But the thing is...Sakura has that Toitsu guy, I have XingMei, life is fair. Syaoran picked up his pen again, determined to get back to work.
"Xiaolang?"
Syaoran lifted his head and saw XingMei at the door holding a plate that had tea and snacks on it. "Are those for me?"
"Hai," XingMei stepped in and placed it on Syaoran's desk. She turned to leave, but Syaoran stopped her.
"Wait," He started, and XingMei turned around, a bit surprised. "Want to stay a while here? Instead of in the living room or something?"
XingMei blinked, she couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Uh...um...sure!!"
Syaoran smiled awkwardly. I feel betrayed...I didn't want to break the promise, I was forced to be with XingMei...but Sakura, no, you went willingly, you broke the promise freely....
He motioned her to take a seat beside him on a small couch in his room, and the two just sat there. One with feelings of hate, pain, and betrayel. And the other completely confused at the sudden change that her boyfriend had with her.
Syaoran placed his hand around XingMei's shoulder. If a war is what they want, then we'll give it our best shot.
Dear Sakura,
Hello Sakura-chan!! How are you?? I haven't received a letter back from you in SO long!! What happened?? Are you alright? At least give me a reply so that I know you're ok over there!! Its been months!!
Well, Eriol and me are fine :) Work and assignments are getting heavy, not so fun. I always have to make sure Eriol isn't cheating by using magic. How's Kero-chan and um...Toitsu-kun right? I still haven't gotten to see what my best friend's boyfriend looks like!! Send a picture or something alright?
Hopefully Kero isn't still that pudding obsessed guardian beast like before. Ohohohohohohoho!! Well, hopefully I'll get to visit Tomoeda soon. I miss you guys and my mom alot, so take care, the little evil camera girl will be back~!
Love Tomoyo Daidouji =^_^=
Sakura placed the letter down on her desk with a small smile. Tomoyo, her bestest friend from childhood, and at the moment was still her bestfriend.
She always felt a true close bond with Tomoyo, unlike her other friends Aki and Yuki. Tomoyo just felt so much like a sister...
Sakura took out a pen and a peice of pink cherry blossom patterned letter paper. "Sorry that I haven't replied in so long... " She wrote slowly and sat there for a moment thinking of what she should write...
"Guess what? He's back. " Sakura wrote, pressing the pen hard on the 'he'. With a girlfriend and all....Sakura thought in her mind, and she couldn't hide the fact she felt a tinge of sadness. And you have a boyfriend Sakura...no use thinking about childhood loves...wasn't my fault he didn't come back any time sooner then SIX years...
Sakura placed her pen down. She wasn't in the mood for writing, so she decided she would continue her letter tomorrow.
Demo (but)...why is he back...all of a sudden? The question suddenly popped in her mind, and she found herself completely confused. There's no reason for him to be back...unless he's weird and wants to get eduacation in Japan...
Sakura sighed deeply. STOP thinking of him Sakura Kinomoto!! I'm happy, he's happy, we're all a happy bunch of people!! Sakura thought cheerfully, but it was no use lying to her heart.
"Gimme an K!!" Sakura threw her pom poms up into the air.
"Gimme an K!!" The rest of the cheerleaders echoed.
"Gimme an Y!!"
"Gimme an Y!!!"
"Gimme an O!!"
"Gimme an O!!!!"
Sakura did a flip and spilts. "Gimme a J!!"
"Gimme an J!!!"
"Gimme an I!!" She lifted her leg straight into the air in a perfect line.
"Gimme an I!!!"
"Gimme an N!!"
"Gimme an N!!" The rest cheered.
Sakura shoke her pom poms wildly. "And what does that say?!"
"KYOJIN~!!!" They all cheered. "Go, go, go!! Gooo Kyojin!! Go Kyojin!!"
They were cheering for him on the soccer field. They were playing against a neibouring high school, Yushiko High. Sakura and her group continued to cheer for Kyojin who had just stepped onto the field followed by Syaoran and the rest of the team.
"GO LI SYAORAN!! GO LI SYAORAN!!"
Sakura and her group of cheerleaders turned their heads towards the new set of voices. "It's XingMei." Sakura heard Meena grunt.
"Where'd she get all those other people to cheer with her?" Yuki raised an eyebrow in question.
"They're all those girls that wanted to be on the cheerleading team but didn't get in," Sakura replied. "Guess they decided to start their own little team neh?"
Hikari started laughing, "You've got to be kidding."
"GO GO GO SYAORAN!! GO GO GO SYAORAN!!" XingMei's group cheered and did a bunch of tricks.
"Actually they aren't so bad," Aki said, an amused tone in her voice.
Sakura shrugged, "Let's get back to cheering. GO GO GO KYOJIN!!"
"This seems strange cheering for two different people on the same team at the same time...it would make much better sense if they were on different teams." Yuki commented.
"True," Meena chuckled. "But the thing is, they aren't on different teams."
"WHOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!" XingMei's team cried as Syaoran scored a goal. "WE ALL KNOW WHO ROCKS THE FIELD, WE ALL KNOW WHO ROCKS THE FIELD, IT'S LI SYAORAN YEAH YEAH YEAH!!"
Sakura rolled her eyes. "C'mon girls, we gotta beat em."
"WHO'S THE KING OF THE FIELD? KYOJIN~! WHO'S THE TOP PLAYER?! KYOJIN~! HE'S GOOD, HE KNOWS IT, AND HE'S HERE TO SHOW IT!!"
The crowd gasped as Syaoran was about to shoot a goal but Kyojin actually took the ball away and scored it.
Out on the fields, Syaoran gave Kyojin a strange look. "What was that for?"
"Nothing," Kyojin smirked.
Syaoran glared at him, "We're on the same team you know. You win, I win. I win, you win."
Kyojin shoke his head, "Doesn't work that way here chinese kid. If you keep on getting the goals, where's the spotlight huh? On you duh! Don't think I'm stupid."
Syaoran shrugged, "If you want to think of it that way, it's your choice."
"LI, TOITSU, get back in the game!!" The coach hollered from the side.
Kyojin grunted and ran off back, Syaoran following right behind.
"Your boyfriend aint that bad neh," Sakura commented sarcastically towards XingMei.
XingMei crossed her arms. "And your's isn't that bad either. Seems to me, he can't even figure out which team he's on."
Sakura stayed calm, and tossed her hair over her shoulder. "He just knew your boyfriend would miss the goal, that's why he took the ball."
"As if!! That was some lame come back Kinomoto," XingMei rolled her eyes. "But let me tell you one thing, everyone can tell that my boyfriend is reliable, I can depend on him. Your's...hmm..he just wants attention you know? If you seriously needed his help one day, I don't think he would be there to help you."
Sakura could feel her cheeks reddening. "Who do you think you are?! Insulting my boyfriend like that?!"
"You're the one who started it," XingMei shot back.
Sakura narrowed her eyes, and behind her she could hear Hikari argeeing. "I think the chinese girl is right actually." With a giggle the rest of the girls joined in. Sakura looked over her shoulder, "Oh what great friends you guys are." She snapped.
Aki shrugged, "Well, you did comment first."
Sakura rolled her eyes, "Oh whatever!!"
They had all been arguing that they hadn't even noticed that the game was over and Shiaranami High had won the game. Syaoran walked from the field towards XingMei, and Kyojin walked towards Sakura.
"YOU WERE AWESOME!!" XingMei squealed at Syaoran.
"Thanks," Syaoran smiled.
Sakura glanced away, for some weird reason she couldn't stand looking at those two. "You were wonderful honey," Sakura gave Kyojin a hug and gave a side ways glance towards Syaoran and XingMei.
Noticing Syaoran's irratated look, Sakura stepped back from the hug with a satisfied smile. "What are you looking at?" Sakura smirked slightly.
Syaoran stared at her for a moment. "I wouldn't waste my time looking." He replied cooly.
Sakura blinked, not really knowing what to say back. XingMei pulled Syaoran by them, and Sakura could feel a brush of that familiar green aura.
"You've changed." She heard him mumble as he walked by.
Sakura gripped her pom poms harder. And you've just noticed? She thought bitterly, and for some reason she felt tired..tired of the sudden things happening around her, and her emotions weren't helping out either.
She left the group of people standing there and decided she needed some time alone.
"That Kinomoto girl was being such a pain," XingMei grumbled.
Syaoran sighed, "You know, she's the mistress."
"NANI (what)?!" XingMei stopped dead in her tracks. "She's the card mistress?!"
He nodded, "Yep."
XingMei still looked shocked. "I thought the mistress of the cards would be some...dignified human being!! Not some bitch that disses my boyfriend!!"
"Calm down Mei," Syaoran said. "Saku..Kinomoto-san wasn't always like this..." He started.
XingMei glanced at him. "You know her?"
"Knew her..." Syaoran sighed. "She's so different now, I can't really say I know her anymore."
XingMei could see a strange look in Syaoran's eyes. There wasn't its normal intense flame of life...it seemed dull, kind of...searching for something, sadness? "Was she nice?" XingMei asked softly.
"...She was...nice..." Syaoran drifted off and shoke his head. "But whatever, we have to get the cards from her and that's all." He started walking again towards the school building, leaving XingMei to ponder about Syaoran's strange behavior.
She was nice...she was innocent...she was...everything... Syaoran rubbed the temple of his forhead. That was 6 years ago, now she's some...18 year old girl who's got some attitude problem...
He noticed that he hadn't walked into the school building yet, and noticed he must've made a wrong turn. He was still trying to get familiar to the school campus which was quite large.
But all the same, this place was more isolated from the building. With cherry blossom trees here and there, some flowers and evergreens.
"School building is that way."
Syaoran looked up for the source of the sound. "Who?"
"Over here."
He turned towards the voice and saw her .
She smiled slightly, not a real smile though. Syaoran walked towards the cherry blossom tree she was sitting on and stared at her calmly.
"Li Syaoran." She said his name slowly.
"Kinomoto Sakura." He said back.
Sakura smirked, one finger playing with a strand of her hair. "Long time no see Li-kun."
He winced slightly...the last time he remembered seeing Sakura, she had called him Syaoran. "You've changed, Kinomoto."
"I know, you told me that already." She replied, not the slight bit bothered that he had called her 'Kinomoto'.
"Why?" He uttered.
"Why?" She said it in a surprised tone. "What do you mean why?! Do I have to go through your agreement to change my personality or what?" She raised an eyebrow.
Syaoran's brow furrowed. "That's not what I meant."
"Then what did you mean huh? You don't like what I'm like right now? So? You don't have too."
"Stop it!!" He said frustratingly. "Why are you being so..."
"Bitchy?" Sakura laughed hard and shoke the branch she was sitting on.
Syaoran ran one hand through his messy brown hair, his eyes narrowing. "Yeah, that's right."
"Well, if you think I'm a bitch, then I think you're one too," Sakura rolled her eyes. "Now who was the one who didn't come back for six damn years?"
Syaoran frowned deeply, "And who was the one who ran off and got herself a boyfriend?"
Sakura was about to open her mouth to reply, but Syaoran continued. "And you probably jumped right into bed with that Toitsu guy. With that personality you have right now, I wouldn't be surprised."
Sakura's grip tightened on the branch she was sitting on, anger flooded through her body, she felt like crying, but she wouldn't cry, not now. She jumped off the branch and landed next to Syaoran. "Bastard." She murmered and started walking away.
"Whore," He replied, and with that Sakura ran off.
Syaoran closed his eyes and breathed in deeply. What did I just say? Syaoran punched the trunk of the cherry blossom tree Sakura had been sitting on earlier. I just...called her a bitch...a whore...oh god, what's wrong with me? Syaoran opened his eyes. No Syaoran...what you did was right. That girl needed that...she's not...the same Sakura anymore.
Syaoran turned around, and he could see the disappearing figure of that girl he once knew so well...but was a stranger to him now.
AN: Ack, I know it was really mean of both of them to call each other that. But BARE with me right now, it won't be like this throughout the whole story!! If anyone needs reassurance, this will be an S+S fic OK? So don't worry!!! I just needed to add some emotional things in there, sorry for people who thought it was just..."OH MY GOD...HOW COULD THEY SAY THAT?!" But stay tooned cuz it'll change throughout the story, arigatou for reading ^_^ R+R and thank you very mucha~!
Luv .::-*--Fizzalicious Cherri--*-::.