I don't actually have this one written out…(I've learned somewhat from my mistakes…) and I know the plot is a bit weak but I have some idea at least of what I'm doing…k just read ahead…if you're reading this then you're already farther than I'd ever have thought…heh heh…since this doesn't seem to be turning out to be one of my best fics…. just read…

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Kura-Kura

Chapter 2 – Don't Let Him Go

Sakura sighed and relaxed a bit on the dark green couch in front of the television (too lazy to deal with abbreviations) and flipped it on. It was around 10:00 pm and the children were sound asleep upstairs. They were perfect angels for her all evening, especially Tamashii. Sakura found that she wasn't even tired like she was with most other children in the neighbourhood. Something in the two girls made them kinder to her than she assumed they would have been to anyone else.

There wasn't anything new on so Sakura decided to call up her boyfriend, hoping that Li-sama wouldn't mind. She punched in the digits and heard the ringing. After the third ring a breathless voice answered the phone.

"M-moshi…m…mo…shi. Manoto residence." A gruff voice sounded on the other end.

"Koshi-chan! It's me Sakura-chan. I'm over at Li-sama's house babysitting. How come you never called me this afternoon?" she asked, sounding slightly disappointed.

"Ano…um…I guess I was just too busy." He casually dismissed the question. "So, kirei Sakura-chan, is there anything else I can do for you?" he asked impatiently, Sakura thought she heard a female voice on the other end but shrugged the idea off.

"No, I guess not. I just wanted to speak with you." There was an audible sigh on the other side but Sakura couldn't tell whether it was in frustration or just a normal sigh.

"Kay. I'm a little busy with…something. I'll see ya tomorrow." He ended quickly and hung up on his girlfriend.

Sakura just stared surprised, at the phone in her hands for a moment then set the phone back down. She could hear keys jingling out on the doorstep and a key turning the lock.

She figured Li-sama was home.

"Hi Li-sama." She greeted him as he walked into the warm house.

"Sakura." he stated more than he greeted.

"Tamashii and Kojika are asleep upstairs. Did you need me to stay here for anything else?" she asked hinting that she needed to be getting home soon.

"No I guess you can be getting home now. Would you like a drive home?" he offered, showing her that his car keys were still in his hands. Sakura smiled and picked up her bag.

"That would be great. Of course that is if it's no trouble to you." She mumbled graciously. His eyes seemed to be filled with a spark of life but his mouth was straight, seeming like there had never been a smile on that face in all his life.

"It's no trouble." He said and led her to his jeep. He held open her door like a perfect gentleman and hopped in on his side.

"So how long have you lived here?" Li-sama asked starting the conversation and the car.

"All my life. Same with my friends." She smiled happily, but frowned slightly when she remembered one friend who wasn't in Tomoeda. "Well, except one."

"And who was that? If you don't mind me prying." He exclaimed he had noticed Sakura's frown and perceiving what she was thinking about he frowned as well.

"He was an old friend of mine but he moved away a long time ago. He probably forgets who I am, now. He left so long ago." She said sadly.

"Now that cant be true. How could someone forget such a wonderful person?" he asked.

"I've only known you a day and already I know that I wont soon forget you."

Sakura blushed a bit at the compliments, but then stopped when she remembered that the man was 36.

"Arigato." She mumbled quietly. "But I don't think he remembers anything about me. And if he does than he probably forgot about his promise. He told me he'd return but it was so long ago and he was engaged then, too."

"So you were in love with this boy?" the shadowed driver asked.

"I guess." Sakura didn't even realise that she was telling an almost complete stranger about Syaoran. She went on. "But he was very stubborn and refused to acknowledge me as his friend much less return my feelings."

"Ah…so much you never knew." Li-sama whispered inaudibly and turned to Sakura.

"You never know." He exclaimed while keeping one eye on the road. "Love can come from many different places and in many different shapes. Did this boy ever become very red around you? Run away from you? Share his deepest secrets with you? That's how you know if someone who's stubborn as that is in love with you." He stated expertly.

"But then why wouldn't he confess to me how he felt if he told me all the other stuff!?" Sakura wailed.

"He must have loved you a lot if he kept certain things from you. He must have thought you didn't feel the same way. Rejection to an open heart is almost deadly to someone like the boy you're talking about. It sounds like he had his steel walls up and you broke them down. If he was rejected by you or even worse…pitied by you then I'm sure he would never have had the courage to fight even for his life." Li-sama's expression changed to one of pain but Sakura didn't notice.

"Do you think he really loved me?" she asked, slightly detached from the rest of the world. She stared out into the cold dark night and sighed.

"Most definitely." He answered. This didn't help Sakura's heart in any way. This meant that he might have left in love with her and she missed her chance to be with him.

"Well that part of me is part of the past and that's where it'll stay. I already have a boyfriend anyways. It's not like Syaoran's going to come back anyways, right?" she asked rhetorically, not expecting an answer.

"You never know." Was all he said.

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When they arrived at her house Sakura picked up her bag and slung it over her shoulder and walked up to the front door. Just before she entered her house she turned around and waved to the jeep as it tore down the street. She walked into the dark and quiet house, noting that her father was still in Peru on a dig and her brother was probably working late at his new job. She slipped off her shoes and left her bag at the front door while she went off in search of the light switch. She found it and immediately saw her slippers lying beside her feet.

She slipped them onto her feet and plodded up the stairs to her room. Then something hit her. Not physically but it did send her reeling. 'how did Li- sama know where to drop me off? I don't remember telling him where I lived. Maybe I did and it slipped my mind.' She assured herself but she couldn't shake the fact that something was strange about the man, nor could she persuade herself to believe that she had told him where she lived.

She walked towards the door of her room crying, "Kero I'm home!" but when she reached her room, no one came out to greet her. Curious she walked over to her bed where she found a note addressed to her.

Dear Sakura, I'm at Tomoyo's house…she has a new game and just made some pudding. See ya later.

Kero-chan

She grinned slightly and collapsed on top of her bed. She only had to read the first part, because Kero was always so predictable. There were only three things that would force the little beast away from his game controller and those were new video games, sweets or a Clow card. And Tomoyo usually had two of the three.

Sakura got up from her bed once more and changed quickly into her nightshirt, which was a deep forest green with one tiny pale pink Sakura blossom to the left of her neck. On the bottom of the long shirt were some fancy Chinese characters but she didn't know what they meant. She had gotten it from Syaoran a month before he left and had promised him to look up the meanings but lately it had slipped her mind. She took a deep yawn and stretched her arms high above her head.

Tip-toeing quietly through the hall, as if someone was in the house sleeping, she crept to the bathroom and brushed her teeth. When she got back to her room she was shocked to see another note on her bed. She picked it up slowly, eyeing the carefully folded piece of paper and opened it.

Dearest Sakura,

Though he is in Hong Kong, your Syaoran still thinks of you and longs for your company once again. Don't let him go. It will lead to disastrous things in both of your futures. I should know.

1 In time you may learn who I am…

She wondered for a moment who the letter was from and how it managed to make it's way onto her bed but then sleep overcame her and she drifted to sleep before her thoughts could think of any answers.

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A person cloaked in shadow stared up at the Kinomoto residence. He could tell that the girl inside had fallen asleep and in a blink he had turned off her light for her. Though the lamplight penetrated the dark shadows, his face remained concealed and he nodded his head slowly to the window, acknowledging that she had received his note. Then he turned from the house and walked away. Within seconds he had totally disappeared from sight and no one on the street even knew he had ever been there…

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I know it's kinda short but I wanted it to be finished because I just got the coolest idea in science class today…sowwie…can't spill the beans just yet…heh heh just review! Prettie please? I mean you were nice enough to read so reviewing would be the natural choice…ne? K gotta go put my ideas down in dot doc format!! Ja ne!!