A Love for Meilin

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Chapter 2: Another Visit

Wei smiled as he watched Meilin making breakfast the next morning.  She looks much happier today.  I think she finally got a good night's sleep last night.

"Ohayou."

Wei jumped, startled at the sudden voice.  Meilin turned and grinned as she looked upon Syaoran who still looked half asleep.

"Ohayou Syaoran!" Meilin said.  "Did you sleep well?"

"I guess…"  He looked over at Wei.  "Did you put me in my room last night?"

Wei nodded.  "Thanks," Syaoran said slightly embarrassed.  I must have been really tired not to have noticed anything last night.

"It's done!" Meilin exclaimed rushing over to Syaoran and pulling him back towards the table. "Eat."

He looked up at her surprised then looked at the large array of food before him.  "Did you make all this?" he asked incredulously.

"Of course," she admitted proudly.

He sighed.  "Itadakimasu."

***

Touya sighed in relief as the door closed behind his father.  It had taken him quite a while to convince him to go to work and leave Sakura to his care.  Luckily, he was in between jobs at the time so he could stay home with her.

He walked slowly to the couch and sat down.  Sakura…I can't believe everything that happened, how we thought we had lost you, but then you were alive…I was so scared.

He closed his eyes trying to shut out the images of the crash that had been shown on the news.  It's amazing that she did get out of their alive…along with that gaki.  But I guess it was good that he survived too or Sakura might not have been okay.  That guy…

He slowly drifted off to sleep.  Visions of Sakura and Syaoran, however, invaded his dreams.  He saw them walking together hand in hand, laughing together, Syaoran comforting Sakura as she cried, Sakura reaching for him not to leave her…

He was suddenly shaken from his dream-filled sleep by the ringing of the doorbell.   He growned.  That was not the best of dreams…

"I'm coming," he called out walking toward the front door.  He opened it to find a tall young man on crutches.

"Can I help you?" Touya asked.

"Uh, my name is Tetsudau Masato.  I wanted to see Sakura-chan.  Does she live here?"

"Yeah," Touya said hesitantly.  "How do you know her?"

Masato smiled gently.  "I met her after the crash."

Touya looked up at him surprised, his eyes widening in recognition of the man before him.  "Oh, you're that guy that was on the news that talked about the crash."

"Yup, that was me."

"Come in," Touya said, leading him to the living room.  "Would you like anything to drink or eat?"

"No that's okay.  I'm fine," Masato replied.

"By the way," Touya began.  "My name is Touya.  I'm Sakura's older brother."

"It's nice to meet you," Masato said.

"Sakura's still asleep so if you want, you can wait here or I'll tell her you visited if you don't want to wait."

"Thanks, but I think I'll wait if that's okay."

"Yeah, that's fine, but I don't know when she's going to wake up," Touya told him.

Masato smiled. "It's okay."

They both looked up as they heard a door open upstairs. 

"It looks like you don't have to wait," Touya said.  They waited as they heard soft footsteps walking down the stairs and towards them.  As Sakura finally reached the entrance to the living room, she stopped, her eyes growing wide.

"Masato-san!"

"Yo."  He grinned at the young girl.  She rushed quickly over to them.  "What are you doing here?" she asked happily.

"Classes at the university start soon, so I had to come to Tokyo.  So since I was so close, I thought I'd visit you and that Li guy," he explained.

"That's great!" Sakura exclaimed smiling at him.  She looked over to the crutches leaning on the couch beside him. "How's your leg?"

"Good," Masato answered.  "The doctor said I should be off the crutches in about a week.  How about you?  How's your arm?"

"It's fine."

"Have you eaten lunch yet?" Touya suddenly interrupted.

"Uh…no, I haven't," Masato replied.

"I'll go make something for us then," he said leaving the room.

Masato watched as he left.  "You have a nice brother."  Sakura smirked.  "Sometimes…" she muttered.   

"So how's Li-kun?" Masato asked.

Sakura blushed slightly. "He's fine.  My father dropped him off at his apartment last night."

Masato smiled, noticing the light red tint spreading across her cheeks.  She looks happy.  So I guess that guy finally told her how he felt.  Good…

"Will you take me to visit him later?"

Sakura smiled.  "Of course."

"I'm sure he'd love to see his pretty little cherry blossom anyway, right?" Masato grinned as her face turned a darker shade of red.

"Do you like tea?  I'll go get us some tea." 

Masato laughed as she almost ran out of the room. 

***

Meilin's eyes watered as she listened to Syaoran tell about the crash, how some seemingly insignicant jerks turned out to be associated with engine failure on the plane, how everyone thought they were going to die, how Sakura tried to use one of the Star Cards but it didn't work. 

"We finally landed in the woods really hard and the plane just skid until it hit a side of a cliff," Syaoran continued. "I looked up and saw Sakura beside me.  She was knocked out and there was blood on her arm.  I thought she was…"  He shook his head.  "I woke her up and we looked around. The whole front end of the plane was smashed, and there was a fire…"

"We saw some of the pictures of it on the news," Meilin told him.

"We heard a baby crying, and so we tried to find it.  Sakura was so happy when it wasn't hurt, but its mother…well anyway, we looked some more to see if we could find any others alive, and luckily we did.  We all helped each other get out of the plane and further away since there was an explosion and the fire was spreading to some of the nearby trees. We walked until we found what we thought would be a safe spot on the other side of a pretty wide stream, and stayed there for the night.  There was a doctor with us that had survived, and he helped to treat us a little with the few supplies he was carrying or found before we got off the plane."

"That was certainly lucky for everyone," Wei said.

"Yeah," Syaoran agreed.  "If he hadn't been there, some of the others might not have survived."  He sighed.  "Anyway, the next day, the doctor suggested it might be better if a couple of us tried to look for help.  So since Sakura and I were the least injured, we decided to go.  But then it rained, and the fire from the plane was put out so the searches could begin.  Before we even found a way out of the woods, one of the search teams found the others.  And then Sakura got really sick, but Keroberos and Yue found us and flew us out of the woods to a nearby town that helped treat us and get us to the hospital all the other survivors had been taken to."

He stopped. 

"That all must have been a horrible experience for you," Wei said.

Syaoran looked up at him, then looked away.  "But there was at least something good…" he mumbled.

Meilin looked at him confused.  "What do you mean?"

Syaoran looked up at her.  I wonder what she'll think about Sakura and me.  "Umm… well, because of the crash and Sakura getting hurt and so sick, I kind of realized finally…how I felt about her…and I told her, and she…she feels the same.  So that was good…"

Meilin's eyes had widened at this news, and although she tried to hold back her tears, they came flowing down her face.  Syaoran…

Syaoran looked at her worriedly.  "Are you okay?"

She turned away and covered her face with her hands.  Syaoran reached over and laid his hand on her shoulder, but she suddenly got up and burst out of the room.  Syaoran watched as she hurriedly put on her shoes and ran out of the apartment.  He got up to go after her.

"Give her a little time, and then go after her," Wei suggested.

Syaoran looked at him.  "But…"

"Just wait for a little while.  She needs to calm down a little before you can talk to her."

Syaoran sank back down on the couch and sighed.  I'm such an idiot.

***

End of Chapter 2