Title: One More Day
Author: Feit
Site: http://atare.com
E-Mail: hawk_witch@hotmail.com
Quote of the Chapter:
"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss,
then our lives will be empty, our loss greater."
Unknown
Disclaimer: Not mine. Not yours. CLAMP's. Pity.
(AN: This is a VERY short chapter, but it gets the needed message across.)
Syaoran: MMMPH! *tied and gagged*
Feit: Well that's what you get for trying to take my tea away!
Sakura: *giggles and gives Feit a high five*
-- Chapter 5 - He Hates Me --
Sakura woke up suddenly at a bellow of thunder. She rubbed the faze from her eyes and glanced
at the clock. There was no light shining back at her from the clock. She muttered. The power
had gone out. She petted the startled Li back to sleep as she thought. 'I've still got to
tell him how I feel. But I couldn't find him! Where was he?'
Resting her head on her pillow, Sakura dozed off again to the drizzle of rain.
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Syaoran sat on the plane, facing the window. The plane had made it out of the airport a few
hours before the storm hit. His fingered fiddled with the corner of the letter he held in his
hands. It contained the message that he was to come back immediately, that he had stayed too
long in Japan, and was now needed to train further, and then become the head of the Li Clan
after his father. Syaoran sighed deeply. They had sent the plane ticket, so there was no
debating over the time. He had had to leave immediately after he read the letter, if he were
to catch the plane. His apartment was left unlocked, Wei had obviously known, cause he was
waiting for the plane when Syaoran arrived. 'Figures,' Syaoran thought. Then his mind drifted
to Sakura. He hadn't gotten a chance to say goodbye to her, but perhaps Li, the kitten, would
keep her company until he could contact her. But the more he thought about it, the more it
proved to be impossible.
He glanced at the phone in the arm of the chair, with which he had called her private line.
He got no answer, and he only left a simple 'goodbye' on her answering machine. He was
struggling to not get his emotions stacked high, so he knew his voice sounded cold. But he
couldn't call back now, and when he got home, he'd have no phone to use without eyes scorning
him. Syaoran sighed again, glad that Wei was alseep. It would be several years, maybe more,
before he could leave and go back to Japan. It seemed Fate was playing games with his life.
He looked forward, his amber eyes as glaring as the day he arrived in Japan. He erased all
feeling from his heart. In the Li Clan, a loving man makes a weak fighter. He could not show
any emotion while training. He had to forget Sakura.
His eyes flickered. 'And she'll forget me. She didn't love me like that, anyway.'
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[The Next Day]
"Tomoyo!" Sakura said breathlessly into her cell phone. "Have you heard from Syaoran?"
Tomoyo sighed lightly as Sakura asked that question for the sixth time that day. "No, I
haven't Sakura. But he wouldn't leave without saying goodbye, would he?" Tomoyo cringed as
she heard Sakura finally break down and sob.
"That's what I thought too."
"Oh, Sakura, you can't loose faith in him so soon!"
"You're saying that I need to wait a little longer before I accept the fact that he left?"
"Sakura, that's not what I meant."
She sighed. "I know, Tomoyo. I'm sorry. But why would he have gone? He never gave me any kind
of clue that he was leaving! I went to his apartment today and there was a For Lease sign
up!"
"Me neither. I don't understand, Sakura. I just don't get it."
"I'll call you back, Tomoyo, alright? Our power is just being turned back on."
"Ok."
Sakura put the phone down lightly, and wiped the tears from her eyes. She played with Li for
a while, and finally tossed the catnip mouse to the corner of the room. Li chased it, tackled
it, and seemed to find no end in the pleasure of fighting it. 'Just like Syaoran.' She
thought.
Sakura moved to her desk, and pulled out her pink stationary. She had to write Eriol back.
~~~~~~ Hey, Eriol.
Tomoyo is just great. She's still carting that video camera of hers around, but she won't
have Syaoran to tape anymore. He disappeared. You wouldn't happen to have any idea why, would
you?
- Sakura
~~~~~~
She folded the paper and slid it into the preaddressed envelope. She sealed it, and rested
her head in her hands and sighed.
A loud click sounded, and power returned. Sakura glanced at her answering machine. The light
was blinking again, signaling that someone has fulfilled it's purpose. Sakura pressed the
play button.
"Hey! Kinomoto Sakura's line! I'm not in right now, so if you'll just say a few words, I'll
get back to ya!"
"Goodbye."
Sakura's eyes stared wide at the machine. 'That was Syaoran! But he sounded so mad, and
hateful! What did I do? He left because of me! And I don't know what I did wrong!"
Sakura grabbed the cell phone, almost violently. Her sobs renewed, she waited to Tomoyo to
answer.
Tomoyo worried as she heard Sakura's sobbing. "Sakura?"
"Tomoyo, he's mad at me! I don't know what I did, but he's mad at me!"
"How do you know he's mad at you?" Tomoyo asked, immediately knowing she meant Syaoran.
Sakura played the one word message again, and put the cell phone by the answering machine.
She brought the phone back to her ear soon enough to hear Tomoyo's suprised gasp.
"I don't believe it! I just don't believe it!"
"Believe it. He hates me. He hates me, and here I was wanting to tell him that I love him!"
"Oh, Sakura..."
No words were spoken as Sakura fought to control her sobs, which proved impossible. Then,
suddenly, they did.
"Oh my god, Tomoyo."
"What?"
"I know who the figure in my premonition is!"
"What!? Who!?"
-- End of Chapter 5 - He Hates Me --
Sakura: Well, everything is all weird now! Syaoran's gone, and I don't have a clue to who I think the figure is!
Feit: That sounds weird.....
Syaoran: MMMPH!
Feit: *ungags Syaoran* What was that?
Syaoran WHY I OUGHTA-- *gagged again*