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Angel From the Sky
By kawaiisakura
Last Chapter:
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!"
It was just like the old times, when they used to go Cardcaptoring together. That was how Sakura had come to know Meilin. She was a strong-willed girl with a fierce attitude, but when she wanted to be nice to someone, you'd know it.
The black-haired girl lifted her gaze from the dusty ground, her eyes wide and her mouth opened just slightly, not believing her eyes. There were still hints of tears on her cheeks and her pale expression was unlike her usual self.
"I'm back, Meilin!" Sakura told her happily, as if she had just gone on a vacation trip and come back.
"B-but.. we buried you days ago..!" Meilin stuttered as her face paled even more at the sight of her.
That was when Meilin noticed the other black-haired girl standing behind Sakura. "Eh? Who's this?" she frowned in distrust, just as she always had done when she met new people.
Sakura smiled widely and moved aside to introduce Tomoyo. "This is Tomoyo, Meilin."
Tomoyo lowered her hand that was holding the camcorder and bowed slightly. "Pleased to meet you, Meilin."
Meilin folded her arms across her chest and frowned, but then quickly forgot about Tomoyo being there. She wanted to know all about how Sakura came back to life again.
After an hour of chatting on the swings of the Penguin Park, Meilin was caught up to everything that had happened to Sakura ever since her "death".
Even Tomoyo learned a few things about her, about how she had been sent to China from heaven. But she didn't record any of this onto the camcorder, because she thought that if Sakura trusted her enough to let her in on this, she shouldn't let anyone else know about her mission.
Meilin suddenly stood up, breaking Tomoyo's thoughts. "Let's go find the others! I'm sure they'll be so excited to know you're back!" she said, taking Sakura by the hand.
But Sakura hesitated and pulled back a little. "Well.. I don't think we should tell Chiharu and the others. I mean.." her sentence trailed off.
Just like they hadn't told anyone else about their cardcaptoring experiences together, Meilin knew that this was something to keep secret too. Meilin nodded knowingly and smiled.
"Let's go to the ice cream parlor then!" Meilin suggested. Sakura followed eagerly; she couldn't wait to be able to go back to her old life again. Tomoyo tagged along behind them, really starting to enjoy filming everything on video.
At the ice cream parlor, they found a seat outside under some colorful umbrellas to shade them from the sun. Meilin offered to buy the ice cream for all of them and hurried inside.
"So how do you like Japan so far, Tomoyo?" Sakura smiled, taking a deep breath of her homeland.
Tomoyo beamed back at her and exclaimed, "Everything is so peaceful here! It's like nothing can ever disturb how calm it is here in your neighborhood." As she said this she took a look at the trees lining the paved road. From afar she caught sight of someone familiar, jogging towards them.
Tomoyo gasped and Sakura looked in that direction too. Indeed, it was Syaoran!
Sakura jumped up from her chair and rushed towards him. "Syaoran, what are you doing here?"
Syaoran leaned one hand onto the table while he tried to catch his breath. "I was.. in the limo and I saw you guys passing the main road."
"But.. how did you get the guards to let you go?" Sakura asked naively.
Syaoran chuckled quietly and replied, "I fought them off, of course." He smiled at her innocence.
Sakura blushed. "You didn't have to do that.." she lowered her head and avoided his gaze. "What about your business?" she looked up worriedly.
Syaoran looked into her eyes. "You're more important to me than my business," he replied, making her blush even more.
"Kawaii!!" a squeaky voice interrupted them. Syaoran and Sakura immediately jumped away, remembering that they were in a public place.
They both turned their heads in the direction and the voice and saw, to their dismay, a flashing red light on the camcorder. It was Tomoyo.
Both faces turned bright tomato red as they shifted away from the camera in an attempt to hide their embarrassment. Tomoyo giggled and added, "It's just like one of those romance movies!" Her eyes were getting all starry again.
Sakura quickly changed the subject and asked, "I wonder if there's a long line or something.. Meilin hasn't come with the ice cream yet."
Tomoyo turned her head to peek inside the parlor window and replied, "Yeah, there are tons of people crowded in there!" But when she turned back, she realized she wasn't talking to anyone. Sakura and Syaoran had sneaked away.
Finally Meilin came running out of the parlor door, only to find Tomoyo sitting there under the umbrellas, looking confused.
Meilin handed one ice cream cone to Tomoyo. "Where's Sakura?" she asked, suspicious that Tomoyo had done something.
Seeing Meilin distrustful stare, Tomoyo promptly said, "My Master had taken her." Even out in public away from the Li family, she still needed to call them by their proper names.
Meilin sighed, looking at the melting ice cream. "And I had gotten her favorite flavor too.." she stared disappointedly at the dripping ice cream.
Tomoyo smiled encouragingly. "It'll be alright. If Sakura had come all this way to find you as soon as she could, then she'll come back again to find you!"
Meilin looked up at Tomoyo, surprised to find another person just as nice as Sakura had been to her when she first arrived in Japan. She sat up straighter and half shouted, "That's right! And we can always go find her!"
Sakura stuck her head out from behind the tall bush and whispered, "Why did you say we have to run away?"
Syaoran stepped out from the tree's shadow and replied, "I want to spend the day with you, alone."
"Hoe?" Sakura started. "But.. wouldn't it be more fun if we all got to spend time together?" She was being her dense self, as usual.
Syaoran smiled patiently and shook his head. "I meant.. more like a date." He stared into her surprised eyes and asked silently with his eyes. Sakura's eyes grew wide, but she nodded and gave him a shy smile.
As Sakura walked side by side with Syaoran down the sidewalk, her mind began to wander. She thought about her home, wondering what had become of it now that her whole family had died. 'Maybe I should just stay here in Japan and not have to finish my mission.. I'll miss my friends so much.'
Only when Syaoran took her by the hand, did she wake up from her daydreaming. "Hoe?"
Syaoran raised an eyebrow. "What were you thinking of?"
"Nothing." Sakura smiled timidly at the ground in front of her. "Where do you wanna go for this.. date?" she asked, still focusing somewhere other than him.
Syaoran shrugged. "I dunno, it's only my second time being in Japan, and I only visited the companies' buildings to hold meetings and stuff."
Sakura was deep in thought again, this time about where to go. "Hey, is there an amusement park somewhere around here?" Syaoran suddenly asked.
Sakura's face lit up. "Yeah! I know an amusement park that we can get to by riding the bus. You wanna go there?"
Syaoran smiled gently. "Sure."
After checking the bus schedule, they knew they had to wait 5 minutes for the next bus. Sakura and Syaoran sat down on the seat next to the bus stop, and sat in silence for one long minute.
"So.. you came from Japan, huh?" Syaoran interrupted the silence.
"Um.. yeah." Sakura wasn't sure how much she should tell him.
"Why did you come to China?" Syaoran continued, trying to fill in the silence.
"I.. I needed a job and I thought it would be easier to find one in China." Sakura answered, but she was really starting to feel guilty for lying to him. She was relieved when she saw the bus finally arriving.
Sitting side by side on the bus, both of them looked opposite ways away from each other. Sakura stared out the window at the passing people and trees.
She thought, 'Maybe I should just tell Syaoran about how I died and came back to do this mission. I don't wanna go to heaven anymore.. my heaven is here with my friends. And Syaoran..'
Suddenly she felt a warm hand on her own. Sakura turned her head in surprise, to see Syaoran staring worriedly back at her with those soft chocolate colored eyes.
"Are you alright? You don't seem like your usual self." He asked, getting a tighter hold onto Sakura's hand.
Sakura blushed a deep red and quickly looked away. "I'm alright.." And she was. She had Syaoran sitting right next to her, and that was all she needed to make the world look brighter.
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This chapter you see Sakura and Syaoran get a bit more romantic with each other, and I hope everyone likes that! :)
I just want to apologize again here, for neglecting to update this fanfic for such a long time, but I'm glad that people still kept me on their favorite authors/stories lists! Really, every time I'm about to continue writing the next chapter, I always look back at some of the reviews I got and the number of people who still keep me on their lists! I'm forever grateful! ^_^
I was planning for their date to be in this chapter, but if I included that too, it would take me a far longer time to update. -_- But hey, does anyone have ideas for what could happen during their date? I have some ideas, but I'm not sure if I should use them or if they're good enough. Any suggestions and comments are welcome!
Please review to support this fanfic! I would really like to keep writing, but getting reviews from readers is what really gives me inspiration to write more. =) Also, leave your email address if you would like me to email you the next time I update. Thanks!
Oh yeah, I know this is a little late, but Merry Christmas! :P and a Happy New Year. ^^
kawaiisakura
Preview for the next chapter:
Finally, Syaoran and Sakura go out on a date!
Who will they meet at the amusement park?
And how might this affect Sakura's relationship with Syaoran?
Yelan wants to know where he had ran off to, but will Syaoran tell the truth?