This is the last part of my Valentine's story.
Note for The Great One:
OK...the Tomoyo chocolate went to Sakura. The one Eriol got is from Mizuki Kaho. In the manga, Eriol and Kaho are in love, but in the anime, they are merely acquaintances. In the manga, Eriol did receive chocolates from Kaho...what's with that teacher and younger men?! First Touya and now an even younger Eriol?!
Thanks for those who have reviewed in the past. My deepest and MOST sincere gratitude to you all. For those wondering why reviews mean so much to me, my explanation at the bottom of hte story (Long and Winding Road).
(This story is based on the manga version of CCS)
Chocolates
Part 5: Yasoku (Promise) – Li Syaoran
Comments are always welcomed at smilie_smilie@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters or the general Card Captor Sakura story. It's the property of Clamp. This story is written as a past time. No copyright infringement intended.
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Li Syaoran was sitting in his apartment staring off into space. His messy chestnut brown hair was tossed on his head in disarray and his intense reddish brown eyes stared into the distance aimlessly. He had better things to do, but somehow, he could never bring himself to it. He liked living in Japan. Back in his native land of Hong Kong, things were always busy. If it were not his four sisters chirping at his ears, it would be his cousins crowding him. He seldom had time to himself or to even hear his own thoughts in his head. In Japan, he had all the peace and quiet he always wanted, but somehow, he felt lonely.
Honestly, Li did not really miss his family that much. Sure, they were important to him, but somehow, Li could cope without them. Then, Li had some friends, but all his friends are the ones he met in Japan, so he could meet them anytime if he wanted to. No, Li was not missing his family and friends. Li was lonely because he needed something more than mere family and friendship. He needed a companion.
And Li did find a companion.
Kinomoto Sakura.
Li had discovered long ago that Kinomoto Sakura had risen from a rival, to a good friend, and finally to a desperately needed companion in his heart. Somehow, Li had fallen in love with her. Even that fact baffled him. He never thought the girl was even worthy of his attention at first and now she consumed his mind. Li did not even remember how or when he had fallen in love, it just felt as though the revelation hit him blindly one day.
Li wanted to admit his feelings for her. Wanted her to return his feelings. But he always hesitated.
There were several reasons though. First of all, Sakura already loved someone, Tsukishiro Yukito, so Sakura saw Li nothing more than a friend. This brings Li to his second reason: he really did not want to jeopardize his friendship with Sakura. This then leads to the third reason that there was no guarantee that Sakura would even return his feelings. Lastly, Li never admitted his feelings because he knew, if he did, Sakura would be confused. He knew Sakura would be reluctant to hurt him that she would not consider his affections carefully. Li wanted Sakura to love him truly, not just because she was afraid of the consequences otherwise.
Other people had been encouraging him to admit to Sakura though. Daidouji Tomoyo, for example, had been urging him to confess for a long while now. In fact, she had pointed out to Li that if he would not tell Sakura directly, Sakura would never find out. Tomoyo also assured him that Sakura would receive his feelings and he would get a "Sakura-chan like" response. Other than Tomoyo, even Sakura herself had been urging Li to admit. Sakura had said that because Li was kind, there was no reason why the person he loved most would not love him back. In fact, Sakura had told Li that whoever he loved was a very lucky person.
Li had tried to admit his feelings several times. However, had always failed because of some external interruption, or Sakura herself stopped him saying that it was not her place to ask. In fact, Li had even said "I love you" to Sakura once but she was not listening. Instead, she was preoccupied with screaming from the next-door high school when Tsukishiro Yukito suddenly fell from the balcony. After that, Li doubted that he would ever find the courage within him to try again.
The sound of the apartment buzzer suddenly shook him awake from his trance. Pressing on the buzzer button, an image of Kinomoto Sakura materialized on the screen.
"Sakura?" he asked in shock.
"Hai, Syaoran-kun. May I come up for a visit?" she asked.
Without hesitation, Li pressed another button on the buzzer unlocking the main door so that Sakura could enter the building. A minute later, Li opened his front apartment door greeting Sakura. "Come in," he said.
Pulling off her shoes and slipping on a pair of guest slippers, Sakura stepped into the apartment. Li led her to the couch in the living room and retreated to the kitchen to prepare some tea and biscuits to greet his guest. He returned several minutes later with a tray and settled it on the coffee table "That box! It wasn't…" Li began stiffly and lowered his head to hide his bright red blushing face.
"Hoe?" Sakura asked confused. "What box?"
Realizing that Sakura didn't know what he was talking about, Li let out a relieved sigh as his blush began to fade a little. "Nan demo nai," he quickly recovered as he poured a cup of tea. "Then, what is it?" he asked as he handed the cup to Sakura.
"It's really nothing," Sakura admitted taking a sip of tea. "I just had something to give you," she said as she set the tea back onto the coffee table and reached inside her bag to pull out the final piece of chocolate. "Here," she presented.
"Ore ni?" Li asked surprised looking at the chocolate in her hand. He could make out his own name written in Kanji written on the chocolate with purple frosting.
"Hai! Because today is Valentine's Day," Sakura answered.
"You made it yourself?" Li asked curiously.
"Hai," Sakura answered.
Li paused for a moment as he felt his own face getting warmer with the oncoming blush.
"Maybe it's not as good as your cooking…" Sakura muttered as she began to retract the chocolate thinking that Li must not want it if he had not taken it by now.
"No!" Li protested quickly as he snatched the sweet away from her. "It looks very delicious!" he said as he opened the package and took a small bite. "And it is very delicious," he continued. "And I like chocolates anyway…" he trailed off his face still carried a tint of pink.
At that, Sakura let out a little giggle. Li always tried his best to make her feel better. That was another one of his finer qualities. "Hontou?" she asked.
Li nodded. "It is very good,"
"Arigatou…" Sakura blushed. "Since you are a wonderful cook, I was afraid my chocolate wouldn't be good enough,"
"No! That's not true!" Li said. "You are a wonderful cook…sore de…" another blush creeping onto his cheeks.
"You are always very kind," Sakura smiled. "The person you like must be really happy,"
"Ore…" Li muttered.
"Did you tell your feelings to the person you like most yet?" Sakura asked.
"Iie…" Li replied grimly.
"That's too bad…because I know that person would be happy if you did," Sakura said.
"Doushite?" Li asked.
"Because then they know they are loved by someone truly special," Sakura reassured. "Did you receive Valentine's chocolate from the person you like?"
Looking down at the chocolate he just received from Sakura, Li blushed "Hai," he answered.
"Hontou? Yokatta! See, the person likes you already!" Sakura smiled.
Li's lips cracked out in a small smile as he continued to look at the chocolate.
"And on White Valentine's Day, you can return the gift," Sakura suggested.
"Hai…" Li said in a small voice.
"You know, I'm really glad we became such good friends," Sakura paused as she took another sip of her tea. "I have been really happy since we became friends," she continued. Then shaking her head she corrected "No, I've been really happy since I met you,"
"Huh?" Li asked confused.
"You are so strong and you try your best at everything. I'm so glad to be able to meet you and learn from you. You make me try a lot harder than I would otherwise," Sakura admitted.
Li merely blushed at the compliment. He was never good at receiving them. "But you try your best too…I just want to be stronger but you always look out for other people…" Li said.
"Well, you look out for me," Sakura smiled.
To that, Li blushed even more as his usually stern expression melted away and a small smile curved on his lips. He was glad that Sakura was noticing how he was protective of her and how much he cared for her, but he did not want to admit his feelings for her yet so he made up an excuse. "I have to…because you have the Clow Cards," he lied.
Sakura had already seen past his lie. Letting out another laugh "But you still look out for me even with Kero-chan and Yue-san around. No…you help me in everything I do, not just in the Clow Cards," she said. Then Sakura brought out one of her hands, holding out her pinky finger, she faced Li. "Let's make a promise. We will always stay together and be friends. No matter what," she said.
Hooking his own finger around hers, Li smiled. For now, friends would have to do. "Friends then,"
***
By the time Sakura made her journey home, the sun was already setting. In the orange glow, Sakura made her way back to her house noticing a bulge sticking out of her mailbox. Excitedly, Sakura jogged up to the mailbox and pulled out two packages. One was a plain white box and another was in a pinkish gift bag lined with laces and ribbons. Sakura could instantly guess who had sent the latter package. It was from none other than Daidouji Tomoyo. Peeking inside, Sakura extracted a heart with wings-shaped chocolate with a message written at the front with baby-blue frosting and a boarder of tiny roses made with yellow frosting. Studying the print closely, Sakura could make out
'Sekai no ichiban kawaii onna no ko, (World's cutest girl)
Sakura-chan'
Sakura giggled a bit at the message as she replaced the chocolate in the bag and looked at the plain white box. To her surprise, there was neither a card nor a message attached to the box. Opening the box carefully, Sakura found it filled with chocolates of varying colour and shapes. Some dark, some light, there was even a wide array of white chocolates. Gingerly, Sakura picked one up to taste. To her surprise, the chocolates were sweet, but not too sweet. They had been well made. Homemade, in fact as Sakura had figured. After all, there was not a card inside the box indicating a store location. Savoring the taste of the chocolate, Sakura let out a content smile as a pinkish blush rose on her cheek.
"Syaoran-kun…"
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Owari!
As usual, comments and criticism welcomed at smilie_smilie@hotmail.com
For those who don't know…
Hai – yes
Nan demo nai – it's nothing
Ore ni – for me (usually for boys)
Hontou – really
Arigatou – thank you
Sore de - and also
Ore - I
Iie – no
Doushite - why
Yokatta - Thank goodness
Hmmm…Tomoyo, Eriol, Yukito, or Li? Take your pick!
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The Long and Winding Road.
Final Words:
Reviews, strangely enough, are very important to me. They tell me what pepole like, what people want less of, what mistakes I've made in the past, and how I can improve for the future. Yes, I should write regardless of what pepole think because these are MY ideas and I WANT them to be shared.
But this is also time consuming. I post here because I wanted to share my stories and my ideas. I know it's hard to get people's attention within the masses, but I try. It doesn't even matter if what I say is well received as long as people are reading and giving me feedback. Recently, I haven't received anything...very disappointing indeed, so I suspect my audience has moved on, and my input is no longer valued.
So I pick up my backpack and hit the long and winding road.
My first posting was a CCS romance (Nadeshiko Flower), and I'm going the same way.
Sayounara! Good bye! Good luck!
Maybe I'll turn back and try again some day.
Until then,
Capie~
Note for The Great One:
OK...the Tomoyo chocolate went to Sakura. The one Eriol got is from Mizuki Kaho. In the manga, Eriol and Kaho are in love, but in the anime, they are merely acquaintances. In the manga, Eriol did receive chocolates from Kaho...what's with that teacher and younger men?! First Touya and now an even younger Eriol?!
Thanks for those who have reviewed in the past. My deepest and MOST sincere gratitude to you all. For those wondering why reviews mean so much to me, my explanation at the bottom of hte story (Long and Winding Road).
(This story is based on the manga version of CCS)
Chocolates
Part 5: Yasoku (Promise) – Li Syaoran
Comments are always welcomed at smilie_smilie@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters or the general Card Captor Sakura story. It's the property of Clamp. This story is written as a past time. No copyright infringement intended.
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Li Syaoran was sitting in his apartment staring off into space. His messy chestnut brown hair was tossed on his head in disarray and his intense reddish brown eyes stared into the distance aimlessly. He had better things to do, but somehow, he could never bring himself to it. He liked living in Japan. Back in his native land of Hong Kong, things were always busy. If it were not his four sisters chirping at his ears, it would be his cousins crowding him. He seldom had time to himself or to even hear his own thoughts in his head. In Japan, he had all the peace and quiet he always wanted, but somehow, he felt lonely.
Honestly, Li did not really miss his family that much. Sure, they were important to him, but somehow, Li could cope without them. Then, Li had some friends, but all his friends are the ones he met in Japan, so he could meet them anytime if he wanted to. No, Li was not missing his family and friends. Li was lonely because he needed something more than mere family and friendship. He needed a companion.
And Li did find a companion.
Kinomoto Sakura.
Li had discovered long ago that Kinomoto Sakura had risen from a rival, to a good friend, and finally to a desperately needed companion in his heart. Somehow, Li had fallen in love with her. Even that fact baffled him. He never thought the girl was even worthy of his attention at first and now she consumed his mind. Li did not even remember how or when he had fallen in love, it just felt as though the revelation hit him blindly one day.
Li wanted to admit his feelings for her. Wanted her to return his feelings. But he always hesitated.
There were several reasons though. First of all, Sakura already loved someone, Tsukishiro Yukito, so Sakura saw Li nothing more than a friend. This brings Li to his second reason: he really did not want to jeopardize his friendship with Sakura. This then leads to the third reason that there was no guarantee that Sakura would even return his feelings. Lastly, Li never admitted his feelings because he knew, if he did, Sakura would be confused. He knew Sakura would be reluctant to hurt him that she would not consider his affections carefully. Li wanted Sakura to love him truly, not just because she was afraid of the consequences otherwise.
Other people had been encouraging him to admit to Sakura though. Daidouji Tomoyo, for example, had been urging him to confess for a long while now. In fact, she had pointed out to Li that if he would not tell Sakura directly, Sakura would never find out. Tomoyo also assured him that Sakura would receive his feelings and he would get a "Sakura-chan like" response. Other than Tomoyo, even Sakura herself had been urging Li to admit. Sakura had said that because Li was kind, there was no reason why the person he loved most would not love him back. In fact, Sakura had told Li that whoever he loved was a very lucky person.
Li had tried to admit his feelings several times. However, had always failed because of some external interruption, or Sakura herself stopped him saying that it was not her place to ask. In fact, Li had even said "I love you" to Sakura once but she was not listening. Instead, she was preoccupied with screaming from the next-door high school when Tsukishiro Yukito suddenly fell from the balcony. After that, Li doubted that he would ever find the courage within him to try again.
The sound of the apartment buzzer suddenly shook him awake from his trance. Pressing on the buzzer button, an image of Kinomoto Sakura materialized on the screen.
"Sakura?" he asked in shock.
"Hai, Syaoran-kun. May I come up for a visit?" she asked.
Without hesitation, Li pressed another button on the buzzer unlocking the main door so that Sakura could enter the building. A minute later, Li opened his front apartment door greeting Sakura. "Come in," he said.
Pulling off her shoes and slipping on a pair of guest slippers, Sakura stepped into the apartment. Li led her to the couch in the living room and retreated to the kitchen to prepare some tea and biscuits to greet his guest. He returned several minutes later with a tray and settled it on the coffee table "That box! It wasn't…" Li began stiffly and lowered his head to hide his bright red blushing face.
"Hoe?" Sakura asked confused. "What box?"
Realizing that Sakura didn't know what he was talking about, Li let out a relieved sigh as his blush began to fade a little. "Nan demo nai," he quickly recovered as he poured a cup of tea. "Then, what is it?" he asked as he handed the cup to Sakura.
"It's really nothing," Sakura admitted taking a sip of tea. "I just had something to give you," she said as she set the tea back onto the coffee table and reached inside her bag to pull out the final piece of chocolate. "Here," she presented.
"Ore ni?" Li asked surprised looking at the chocolate in her hand. He could make out his own name written in Kanji written on the chocolate with purple frosting.
"Hai! Because today is Valentine's Day," Sakura answered.
"You made it yourself?" Li asked curiously.
"Hai," Sakura answered.
Li paused for a moment as he felt his own face getting warmer with the oncoming blush.
"Maybe it's not as good as your cooking…" Sakura muttered as she began to retract the chocolate thinking that Li must not want it if he had not taken it by now.
"No!" Li protested quickly as he snatched the sweet away from her. "It looks very delicious!" he said as he opened the package and took a small bite. "And it is very delicious," he continued. "And I like chocolates anyway…" he trailed off his face still carried a tint of pink.
At that, Sakura let out a little giggle. Li always tried his best to make her feel better. That was another one of his finer qualities. "Hontou?" she asked.
Li nodded. "It is very good,"
"Arigatou…" Sakura blushed. "Since you are a wonderful cook, I was afraid my chocolate wouldn't be good enough,"
"No! That's not true!" Li said. "You are a wonderful cook…sore de…" another blush creeping onto his cheeks.
"You are always very kind," Sakura smiled. "The person you like must be really happy,"
"Ore…" Li muttered.
"Did you tell your feelings to the person you like most yet?" Sakura asked.
"Iie…" Li replied grimly.
"That's too bad…because I know that person would be happy if you did," Sakura said.
"Doushite?" Li asked.
"Because then they know they are loved by someone truly special," Sakura reassured. "Did you receive Valentine's chocolate from the person you like?"
Looking down at the chocolate he just received from Sakura, Li blushed "Hai," he answered.
"Hontou? Yokatta! See, the person likes you already!" Sakura smiled.
Li's lips cracked out in a small smile as he continued to look at the chocolate.
"And on White Valentine's Day, you can return the gift," Sakura suggested.
"Hai…" Li said in a small voice.
"You know, I'm really glad we became such good friends," Sakura paused as she took another sip of her tea. "I have been really happy since we became friends," she continued. Then shaking her head she corrected "No, I've been really happy since I met you,"
"Huh?" Li asked confused.
"You are so strong and you try your best at everything. I'm so glad to be able to meet you and learn from you. You make me try a lot harder than I would otherwise," Sakura admitted.
Li merely blushed at the compliment. He was never good at receiving them. "But you try your best too…I just want to be stronger but you always look out for other people…" Li said.
"Well, you look out for me," Sakura smiled.
To that, Li blushed even more as his usually stern expression melted away and a small smile curved on his lips. He was glad that Sakura was noticing how he was protective of her and how much he cared for her, but he did not want to admit his feelings for her yet so he made up an excuse. "I have to…because you have the Clow Cards," he lied.
Sakura had already seen past his lie. Letting out another laugh "But you still look out for me even with Kero-chan and Yue-san around. No…you help me in everything I do, not just in the Clow Cards," she said. Then Sakura brought out one of her hands, holding out her pinky finger, she faced Li. "Let's make a promise. We will always stay together and be friends. No matter what," she said.
Hooking his own finger around hers, Li smiled. For now, friends would have to do. "Friends then,"
***
By the time Sakura made her journey home, the sun was already setting. In the orange glow, Sakura made her way back to her house noticing a bulge sticking out of her mailbox. Excitedly, Sakura jogged up to the mailbox and pulled out two packages. One was a plain white box and another was in a pinkish gift bag lined with laces and ribbons. Sakura could instantly guess who had sent the latter package. It was from none other than Daidouji Tomoyo. Peeking inside, Sakura extracted a heart with wings-shaped chocolate with a message written at the front with baby-blue frosting and a boarder of tiny roses made with yellow frosting. Studying the print closely, Sakura could make out
'Sekai no ichiban kawaii onna no ko, (World's cutest girl)
Sakura-chan'
Sakura giggled a bit at the message as she replaced the chocolate in the bag and looked at the plain white box. To her surprise, there was neither a card nor a message attached to the box. Opening the box carefully, Sakura found it filled with chocolates of varying colour and shapes. Some dark, some light, there was even a wide array of white chocolates. Gingerly, Sakura picked one up to taste. To her surprise, the chocolates were sweet, but not too sweet. They had been well made. Homemade, in fact as Sakura had figured. After all, there was not a card inside the box indicating a store location. Savoring the taste of the chocolate, Sakura let out a content smile as a pinkish blush rose on her cheek.
"Syaoran-kun…"
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Owari!
As usual, comments and criticism welcomed at smilie_smilie@hotmail.com
For those who don't know…
Hai – yes
Nan demo nai – it's nothing
Ore ni – for me (usually for boys)
Hontou – really
Arigatou – thank you
Sore de - and also
Ore - I
Iie – no
Doushite - why
Yokatta - Thank goodness
Hmmm…Tomoyo, Eriol, Yukito, or Li? Take your pick!
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The Long and Winding Road.
Final Words:
Reviews, strangely enough, are very important to me. They tell me what pepole like, what people want less of, what mistakes I've made in the past, and how I can improve for the future. Yes, I should write regardless of what pepole think because these are MY ideas and I WANT them to be shared.
But this is also time consuming. I post here because I wanted to share my stories and my ideas. I know it's hard to get people's attention within the masses, but I try. It doesn't even matter if what I say is well received as long as people are reading and giving me feedback. Recently, I haven't received anything...very disappointing indeed, so I suspect my audience has moved on, and my input is no longer valued.
So I pick up my backpack and hit the long and winding road.
My first posting was a CCS romance (Nadeshiko Flower), and I'm going the same way.
Sayounara! Good bye! Good luck!
Maybe I'll turn back and try again some day.
Until then,
Capie~