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Unwinding Destiny
By ~Xiaoling~
Chapter 13:
Reveal thy true form
Sakura woke up the next day, happy and cheerful which was very unlikely for her now.
"Kero? Wake up!" Sakura said happily while swinging him around the room.
"Ah! I'm getting dizzy Sakura!" Kero cried with swirls in his eyes.
Sakura giggled and placed him on the bed. "I feel so happy Kero! It feels like back when I was a princess and my family was still here!"
Kero smiled a bit sadly at Sakura. "I'm glad you're happy Sakura..."
"Now..I only have one problem...Syaoran..." Sakura said softly. "I can't bring myself to kill him Kero!"
"...Maybe, even though I hate that gaki so much, maybe you can't kill him, because you love him Sakura..." Kero remarked. "You can't lie to yourself all your life Sakura. If you love him, then you do. And if you kill him knowing that you loved him, you're going to regret."
Sakura was silent as she was in deep thought.
She snapped out of her revery when Ming knocked at her door. "Why aren't you at the kitchens?! It's almost time for the king's breakfast and you know what happened yesterday! He will be even moodier if we are late with his breakfast!"
Sakura bolted off the bed and ran
out the room with Ming. Kero slowly sat up again from his fake stuff animal
position. "Bring me back something!!!" He thought out loud.
Syaoran and Meiling sight at the table, silent. Meiling felt awkward, as they were just staring at the table, not speaking or looking at each other.
Sakura came into the room with the plates of food and placed it on the table.
Syaoran brushed the food away angrilly. "I do not want to eat this today!" The plates went smashing to the floor.
Meiling gasped softly at the loud noise, but Sakura stayed silent and calm. She bent down to collect the pieces of broken china plates and the food.
"Then what do you want to eat your majesty?" Sakura asked impaitiently.
"Nothing." Was his simple answer.
"But I do assume that your highness would want some food?" Sakura questioned, pointing the question to Meiling.
Meiling sighed softly and shook her head. "It's alright. I do not feel like eating either." She pushed her chair back and left the room.
Sakura's gazed followed Meiling as she left the room. Sakura turned to leave but Syaoran stopped her.
"...Gomen.."
"Why are you sorry your majesty?" Sakura asked, turning around gracefully.
Syaoran looked into Sakura's eyes. They seemed sad, yet burning with an intense sort of fire. "I'm sorry that I waisted all the food you cooked..."
"It's perfectly alright..." Sakura said quietly and left the room. *I finally had the mind to poison your food, yet you do not eat it. Is this a sign that I mustn't kill you? No Sakura, that is just what you hope...you still love him don't you?! No I don't..."
"Ouch!" Sakura winced as one of the
broken plates of china cut her finger. She frowned and quickly returned
to the kitchen and to throw out the shattered plates.
Syaoran went into his room sadly, somehow, the room felt entirely empty without the powerful aura of the Clow Book. His forehead crickled frustratedly as he walked to the window where he had thought he saw the intruder jump out of.
Something blowing in the wind caught his eye. Syaoran saw a piece of cloth caught on the edge of the window sill and he ripped it off. It was a pink color fabric.
He closed his eyes to try to remember who had wore pink. He couldn't remember...He brought the fabric to his nose, and smelt the scent of...
"Honey suckle and cherry blossoms..." He said out loud. *It couldn't have been you...how could have been you? You wouldn't have even known about the Clow Book...* Syaoran thought furiously. Yet something was tugging at him at the back of his head.
Flashback>
They walked out of the kitchen room, passing by Syaoran's bedroom. Hu Die felt a strong aura coming from the room.
*The Clow Book!* Hu Die thought instantly.
"Is there something wrong? You seem like you've just seen a ghost..." Syaoran asked her worridly.
Hu Die smiled back at him. "Nothing...I was just thinking."
"About?"
"...Uh...my family.." She lied, but she was constantly thinking of her family. Her smiled quickly faded and it turned into a frown.
"Do you miss them? You can go visit them if you want this weekend," Syaoran offered.
Hu Die gave a soft smile of gratitude but she shook her head. "I can't visit them...unless I have wings to fly up there..." Hu Die sadly pointed towards the cloudless blue sky.
"Oh...I'm sorry..." Syaoran said sympathetically. "I didn't know..."
"It's alright..." Hu Die said, a little bit of bitterness in her voice. *Of course you know...*
End of Flashback>
He remember how strangely the girl
had acted when they walked by his room. "But how could she know about the
Clow Book...and that it was behind the painting..." He decided to pay a
visit in the kitchens.
"Oh, Hu Die-chan isn't here your majesty...I think she returned to her room.." Ming answered.
Syaoran nodded and walked off to Sakura's room. As he neared the door, he felt two very powerful auras. One was pink, and the other felt yellowish gold.
*What...what could that be?*
He knocked lightly on the door, and instantly the auras disappeared. Syaoran frowned.
Sakura appeared at the door, and gave him a light smile. "Oh hello!"
"Hello..may I come in for a second?" Syaoran asked.
Sakura moved aside to let him come in. She glanced over to her bed, and sighed in relief that Kero had hid himself under the blankets.
"Is something the matter?"
Sakura shook her head quickly. "Nothing is the matter! I was just breathing, it does smell nice doesn't it?!" She stammered.
"..Um..yeah..." Syaoran said while looking all over the room to see if anything was unusual. "Miss...uh, how do I adress you?"
"Oh, you can just call me Hu-chan if you want." Sakura said uneasily.
Syaoran nodded slightly. "Do...do...do you know.."
"Hm?"
"Do...Clo.."
"..."
"Doyouknowabouttheclowbook?!" He finally managed to blurt out.
Sakura blinked at him. "Excuse me?"
Syaoran turned red a bit. "Do.You.Know.About.The.Clow.Book?"
"...uh..." Sakura was shocked that somehow Syaoran must have found out it was her who took the book. *It is no use lieing to him even more...it wouldn't even matter, then I wouldn't even have to poison him. Then I can kill him with magic...*
"In fact, I do," Sakura said, trying to keep her voice was shaking.
Syaoran tried to hide his shocked expression, but his angry expression took over his face. "DID YOU STEAL IT THEN?!"
"Why would I?" Sakura uttered.
"BECAUSE THIS!" Syaoran raised the piece of pink cloth to Sakura's face. "This must be part of your clothing. It was your smell!"
Sakura's eyes widened. "...I...I don't know."
"Why?! Why did you lie to me?" Syaoran demanded.
Sakura's shocked expression turned into anger. "THEN ASK YOURSELF WHY YOU LIED TO ME!"
It was Syaoran's turn to blink and be shocked. "...W...What?! ARE YOU TRYING TO PLAY WITH MY MIND OR WHAT?!"
"I AM NOT, SYAORAN LI! OR SHOULD I SAY SYAORAN NEZUMI!" Sakura snapped back.
Syaoran gasped loudly, and fell back a couple steps. No one knew about his fake name, except for Eriol, Tomoyo, the Kinomoto family, and espeically...Sakura.
"Who...who are you?" Syaoran almost asked in a whisper.
"...I...I am someone you betrayed,
someone you killed, someone that your tore apart piece by piece." Sakura
said in a deathly calm voice. "I am someone that you promised to go butterfly
catching with."
AN: AIYA! Next chapter everything
will be revealed! Or will it not?! And most of all, sadly, maybe the next
chapter will be the final chapter! Oh no! It might, we never know. Actually,
it won't be cause something BAD is going to happen. Got that?! Something
I don't think any of you expected...anyways, stay tooned to find out!
