Disclaimer: I do not down CCS or any of its characters much to my dismay! They belong to CLAMP.

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Unwinding Destiny
By ~Xiaoling~

Chapter 17:
Let's go Butterfly Catching

Let's go butterfly catching

Just you and me

A long time ago

You promised me


Sakura stumbled over a fallen log, and she heard laughing behind her. She pouted and placed her hands on her hips while getting up again.

"Hey! That isn't funny at all!" Sakura said with a huff, blowing her long auburn bangs into the air, and causing a stick to fall off her hair.

Syaoran tried to stop laughing, and then he pointed towards the tree branch. "Hey! It's over there!" Syaoran leapt onto the branch skillfully, but right when he landed, the butterfly fluttered away. Syaoran lost his balance and tumbled down the chair.

I'm your little butterfly

Set free to roam the skies

You can't catch me

Or should I catch you?

Catch you catch me

Sakura giggled as he landed in a bush. Syaoran stood up with leaves all over his messy brown hair. "Well, I was closer than you!"

"Hehehehehe!" Sakura couldn't stop giggling, but then she noticed the pink butterfly sitting on a rock.

She ran to it, her butterfly net swinging her her hands. She swung it down upon the butterfly, and missed, tripping over the rock it stood on.

"This is hiliarious!" Syaoran chuckled.

Sakura got back up, mud all over her dress. "This butterfly is annoying me!" Sakura grumbled.

Syaoran spied the pink butterfly out of the corners of his eyes. He used his speed and swung his net down, and surprisingly he caught it. "Ha! I got it!"

Sakura ran over to him, and they both stared at the little careless butterfly fluttering in the net. Sakura flipped the net over, releasing it back into the skies.

Even if you do catch me

I will be set free

To roam the skies once again

Because I am a butterfly

So free and beautiful...

"What did you do that for?!" Syaoran exclaimed, a bit annoyed.

Sakura giggled at his expression. "Do you not remember what I said to you?"

"..." Syaoran stayed silent, thinking of the past. "Yes, I do...it is sad to see such a beautiful ceature trapped, neh?"

Sakura nodded, "So free, with no responsibilities." Sakura smiled as she watched the butterfly land on a wild flower. "So calm..."

The pink butterfly jumped onto another flower, when something came onto the flower it was standing on before. It was a green butterfly, and it chased the pink butterfly around the flowers.

Sakura and Syaoran watched the two creatures, swirling in the sky together. Bound in each other wings, fluttering so high. And soon, they lost sight of it.

"You and I, are just like butterflies," Syaoran said, placing his hands around Sakura's shoulders.

They were rocking back and forth, watching the sun set slowly, the sky a pinkish purple.

"So calm, so serene, ashiteru Shaoran..." Sakura mumbled into his chest.

Syaoran sighed in content. "Ashiteru Sakura..."

Eriol and Tomoyo were standing on the balcony of Tomoyo's room. Tomoyo saw something fluttering the darkening sky.

"Look!" She pointed.

A purple butterfly fluttered by, and landed on the railing of the balcony.

"Wow!" Tomoyo said in awe.

Eriol smiled at her, and pointed to something else in the sky. "Look there."

A darkish blue butterfly was coming to join the purple one. And they danced around the balcony, fluttering their colorful wings.

"It's beautiful isn't it Eriol?" Tomoyo said gently.

Eriol nodded, "Everything is beautiful Tomoyo. Everyone's lives has beauty in it."

"...oh really?"

"Yes, really." Eriol wrapped his arms around Tomoyo. "Just like I said before, let destiny unwind itself without interference, and all will go well."

"Every day, every hour, we are unwinding destiny." Tomoyo added.

Eriol nodded, "You are correct. We are all unwinding our own destinies, and bit by bit, we will come to the end of it, and there will be no more to unwind."

"...But we don't have to think about that now Eriol. We still have a long future ahead of us."

They both nodded.


*--The End--*






AN: Waa! The story is over! Yep, it's a happily ever after kinda story! Thank you all for reading Unwinding Destiny my thrid CCS fic! I thank all the reviewers, and everyone who read this! Stay tooned for more S+S fics my the one and only ~Xiaoling~!

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