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Angel From the Sky
By kawaiisakura
Last Chapter:
"Anyone who knows how rich he is would want to accompany him on that trip! I don't know how long it'll last, but he definitely won't be back for a while you know."
Tomoyo then added hastily, "I don't like him though, so he's all yours!" she winked at her and wished her good night.
After Tomoyo's footsteps sounded away down the hall, Sakura
fell onto her bed comfortably, still clothed in her servant clothes. Almost
instantly she entered into a deep sleep, but not before mumbling "Syaoran.."
The days passed by merrily for Sakura, spending everyday accompanying Syaoran everywhere he went.
It seemed that ever since he had come to know her, he'd been spending time outside of those office doors a lot more often, and he smiled everyday—just for her.
Knock Knock.
"Mm.." Sakura murmured in her sleep.
"Wake up Sakura." A distant voice called softly.
"Just a few more minutes, Kero.." she used the pillow to muffle the voice.
"Ok then, but Master Li isn't going to be very happy if you're late.." the person speaking had left the room, leaving the door closed behind her.
Sakura jumped up and out of bed, having completely forgotten what today was.
She picked up the set of clothes that Tomoyo had hand-made for her especially for the trip and changed into them, all the while thinking, 'It's amazing how quickly Tomoyo makes dresses..'
After brushing her hair and gathering her possessions, Sakura practically flew out of the door, her luggage in hand.
As she descended the stairs hurriedly, her pounding footsteps echoed through the entire first floor, attracting attention to her.
Just as Sakura stopped at the bottom of the stairs, she looked up to see the rest of the servants all lined up in an orderly fashion with unusually serious faces. A woman, whose back was facing Sakura at the moment, was lecturing them in a strict voice.
"You will take care of the mansion as if none of us has left this place. I have left someone in charge of you so as to report if anything should go wrong." The tall woman had an icy cold voice and talked to them like they were animals to be trained.
Sakura didn't even have time to frown at her, before the woman had whipped around and said in a forced polite voice, "May I ask who you are? And what business do you have being here?" she eyed the suitcase in her hand.
"I uh— " she started uncertainly.
At that moment Tomoyo called from the hall to the left, "Master Li is all ready to go, Mistress!" and following that she promptly reported in front of the mistress with her head in a half bow.
"Good. Daidouji, you have worked hard these few years, and I think that it would be wise if you came along on this trip also." It was an order, not a question.
"Yes, Mistress Yelan. I would be very honored!" Tomoyo's face lit up brightly and she smiled reassuringly to Sakura.
Yelan nodded and flicked her eyes back to Sakura. "Tell me who this girl is."
"She is Sakura Kinomoto, the friend that Master Li has chosen to take on this business trip." Tomoyo didn't dare to look up for fear of Yelan Li's reaction.
Tomoyo had indeed heard Sakura stumbling down the stairs too, and knew that her mistress wouldn't allow a person without manners around the Master.
Yelan now turned fully to Sakura and examined her head to toe, her eyes like an x-ray piercing through her. Sakura stood unafraid, staring back at her Mistress with determination.
"Kinomoto.. that doesn't sound very Chinese. Would you care to explain on that, miss?" Yelan showed mild interest in this topic.
Sakura opened her mouth to answer, but Li Syaoran suddenly interrupted as he stepped out of the office saying, "Mother, do you have to survey every person I talk to?" he had an impatient look on his face.
"Yes, son, both you and I know that we must be careful who we tangle ourselves with." But even with these words, she seemed to have dropped the questioning, not wanting to anger him before departing.
After sending a few more orders here and there, Yelan Li lead the ones chosen to come along on the trip out of the oak front doors and down the winding path through the front garden.
A lengthy black limo awaited them at the gates to escort them to the airport. Sakura was looking at the automobile with awe, as she had never even come close to riding one before. Tomoyo, on the other hand, looked like this was an everyday thing.
There was a lot of entertainment and food inside the shiny limo and the ride was smooth as if they weren't even traveling. Even on the way to the airport, Yelan was either signing papers to join with other companies or ordering people to get ready for their arrival over the cell phone.
As they arrived at the airport entrance, people turned their heads whether they were in a car or walking on the side. One look at the woman in the backseat was enough to make everyone stop and let them through, as if on instinct.
Servants and guards who were already stationed at the airport's doors came rushing in to open doors, carry luggage, and accompany them all the way onto the plane.
Sakura and Tomoyo shuffled in a hurry among the chaos to catch up. It seemed that with all of the ordering and scolding that the Mistress had done, they were now going to be late for the plane.
After checking in and going through a series of scanning luggages (Yelan was upset at the amount of security that had to be placed on them, saying that they were above all and didn't need such treatment), they finally arrived at the first class seats of the plane.
Yelan Li sat down in the front first class seats along with many other big company bosses, chatting politely. Syaoran looked over at Sakura and noticed that she was heading to the back with the rest of the servants.
"Sakura!" Syaoran called down the aisle, turning many heads his way. Sakura stopped and raised an eyebrow at him questioningly.
"Come sit with me." Syaoran said in a voice that was anything but ordering. Instead it was sort of.. pleading. Sakura turned back to Tomoyo, who was eagerly pushing her on, and started to argue with her that servants and their Masters didn't sit in the same level of seats.
Tomoyo laughed lightly and pushed her forward as other people parted to let her pass. "Go! The Master wants you to sit with him!" She looked more excited than Sakura herself.
Sakura found herself almost stumbling into Syaoran's arms again, but quickly caught herself when she felt Yelan's pair of intense eyes glaring at her.
The Mistress didn't say anything as Sakura sat hesitantly next to Syaoran in the row behind her, but it was merely because Yelan Li didn't want the other bosses to think poorly of her.
As people around them settled down, the flight attendant started going through the procedures for safety on the airplane. Syaoran, who usually paid fair attention to the announcements in all of his airplane trips, couldn't help but glance sideways at Sakura, admiring her lightly blowing hair and sparkling eyes.
In the corner of her eye Sakura noticed Syaoran turning his glance to her every now and then, and she couldn't help smiling and blushing. She tried to seem like she didn't know what was going on instead.
"Do you need something Master?" she cocked her head to face him, putting on a sweet smile. She had mentally noted to call him Master again as the Mistress listened in on their conversation.
"Uh-" Syaoran started, his face turning a deep red for having been caught staring at her. He looked away in the other direction and said no more.
Syaoran couldn't sleep even though he was very tired, not with Sakura sitting right next to him. Sakura, however, slowly drifted off to sleep. Syaoran suddenly noticed something sticking out of her backpack that was at her feet.
Attempting to put it back in for her, he reached down and picked up. A familiar smiling face caught his attention. It was a passport picture of Sakura, with her hair tied up on both sides with little pink ribbons.
Syaoran couldn't help smiling at this cute picture and looked at the writing next to the picture: Sakura Kinomoto, born in Tomoeda, Japan, age 17..
He was about to keep reading when he felt something weighting down his right shoulder. Syaoran looked to his right and to his surprise, he found Sakura's head resting on his shoulder. She was fast asleep, and from this close up, Syaoran thought that she looked just like an angel.
The 18 year old boy found himself blushing so madly, but he stopped immediately when he saw his mother looking over her shoulder in the front row, glaring at their interaction.
Ding"Ladies and gentlemen, the seatbelt light has been lit as we are about to arrive at the airport. Please straighten all seats…"
The announcement had woken Sakura up, startling Syaoran as she lifted her head from his shoulder and rubbed her eyes sleepily.
"We're here already?" Sakura asked in a sleepy voice to Syaoran.
"Yeah." Syaoran replied, glad that Sakura hadn't said anything about sleep on his shoulder.
"Look out the window!" Sakura pointed a finger towards the plane window at the fluffy clouds surrounding them. She had only been on an airplane once when she was really small, so she didn't remember anything of the past experience.
Syaoran smiled at her excitement and barely glanced outside but focused his attention on Sakura.
As the airplane lowered through the thick layer of clouds, there was a whirling cloud of mist all around the plane.
"Wowwww…" Sakura peered down with amazement at the spectacular view of Japan. "It's so beautiful!"
"Yeah..." Syaoran murmured faintly, grinning at Sakura.
After they had gotten all their suitcases and ridden the limo to the best hotel around, everyone got settled in their rooms.
Yelan Li had arranged it so that Syaoran and Tomoyo's rooms were near hers if she ever needed to talk to them. She had especially arranged for Sakura to share the same room as Tomoyo, her trusted assistant.
"Listen, Daidouji, I want you to keep an eye on Ms. Kinomoto while she's here. I have assigned you a video camera for her every move, and I want a weekly report from you about her whereabouts." Yelan Li ordered, as a servant handed over a video camcorder.
Tomoyo Daidouji nodded her head in consent, although she didn't agree with her methods.
Room 304
"Hey Tomoyo, isn't it great that we're sharing a room?" Sakura's cheerful face greeted Tomoyo as she stepped into the hotel room using her own card key. (There are two for every room.)
Tomoyo felt a little guilty as she forced a smile back at her and hid the camera behind her back. 'This is work.. I can't mix it up with friendships.' She convinced herself.
They laid their opened suitcases out on the bed and emptied some of its contents. Tomoyo noticed Sakura taking out a framed picture of her and some of her friends.
"May I see that?" Tomoyo asked nicely. Sakura handed it over, pointing to each one saying their names.
Sakura recalled that the suitcase and her handbag had strangely appeared next to her after she had landed onto the ground on that fateful day when she was assigned to go on this mission. What was interesting to her was how the hooded guy had known everything that she'd bring in her luggage as if she'd packed it herself.
'The mission.. I had almost forgotten about it. I don't want to trick Syaoran now that I know him..' she thought as she frowned.
"Sakura? Are you alright?" Tomoyo's confused expression broke her thoughts. Sakura grinned reassuringly and went back to unpack her things.
"I'm planning to visit some friends I have here tomorrow.. do you think I can have a day off?" Sakura asked after a while.
Tomoyo thought about it and said, "I think the Mistress would be okay with that, we have enough servants around here anyway." Then she realized that she had a job to do a report on her. "..Can I come along too?"
Sakura looked up and smiled. "Sure! I bet you'll want to see Japan a bit more than how much we servants actually get to, hm? I could even introduce you to my friends!"
Tomoyo laughed. "Thanks, Sakura." She was beginning to feel like Sakura was more like a friend to her than anyone she had ever met.
The next day Sakura awoke at around 8 o'clock to find that Tomoyo had already told the Mistress about their plans for the day.
"What did the Mistress say?" Sakura asked anxiously as they grabbed their belongings and headed out the hotel room.
"She agreed, reasonably, but kind of.. well, eager." Tomoyo added the last part bitterly. Sakura was delighted with the idea, excited for the free day in front of them. But Tomoyo thought somberly, 'The Mistress only wanted to get rid her for one day..'
The hotel they were at was in a city near Tomoeda, where Sakura was born, so they took a bus there from the front of the hotel.
Stepping off the rumbling bus carefully, Sakura looked up to face a street filled with cherry blossom trees blowing gently in the breeze. She had missed this place so much, her family, friends, and school were all here. Sakura smiled and took a deep breath.
Tomoyo looked around curiously and admired the clean environment of Sakura's neighborhood and followed her.
Sakura lead Tomoyo to the Penguin Park where they sat down on the two swings there. This had been the place that Meilin and Sakura had spent countless times together. She had been there to comfort her when Yukito told her that he didn't love her in the same way. She had been there during their cardcaptoring days, always protecting her.
(A/N: Basically since Syaoran never came to Japan, Meilin became Sakura's good friend and did the things that Syaoran would've done. Hope it's not too confusing. :] )
Tomoyo had the camcorder in hand, moving the screen across the park, filming Sakura at the same time. She was partially doing so to remember this place.
When Sakura asked her about the video camera, Tomoyo replied, "It's sort of a hobby of mine.." she reminded herself that it wasn't really a lie since she was getting to really enjoy taping everything.
In the distance they heard lonely footsteps walking towards them and the park. Sakura stared at the person approaching for a while, and upon recognition jumped from the swings and went forward to greet her.
"Hey Meilin!"
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So, how was this chapter? I'd really like to hear from my readers and any suggestions or advice! :) I hope everyone was satisfied with the length of this chapter, and if anyone would like me to write even more on the next one, just say so in your review and I'll try my best next time!
Also, I just want to say that I've never seen the entire anime show of CCS, or any parts about how Yelan treats her servants, if it shows in it at all. Please correct me if I'm wrong in how they address each other. =)
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Preview for the next chapter:
How will Meilin react when she sees that Sakura has come back to life?
Now that Sakura can be with her friends, would she still want to complete the mission and move on to heaven?
What will happen when Syaoran asks Sakura out?
'Til next chapter! Bye!
~kawaiisakura
(9/2/03)